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?
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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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.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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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.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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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.
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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.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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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.
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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.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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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.
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We don't work with anyone.
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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!
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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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.
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Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.
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I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
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There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.
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I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
Colson Whitehead
