Colson Whitehead Quotes
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Xun Kuang -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
Aaron Yoo -
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos -
I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
Wallis Simpson -
We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
Aaron Spelling
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
Mae Jemison -
Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
Gary Bettman -
Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
Ian Somerhalder -
It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.
Larry MacPhail -
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
Ralph Bakshi -
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
Ulrich Beck
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence -
We don't work with anyone.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
Octavia Spencer -
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung -
Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
Burnie Burns
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My bed is actually two king beds put together.
Cindy Margolis -
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Douglas Coupland -
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
Jenny Lewis -
I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.
Drew Barrymore -
I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
Colson Whitehead