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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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.
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When I first met YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, I was moderating a panel she was on for Harvard alums. We were both wrapping up our maternity leaves. She had just had her fifth child; I'd just had my second. We traded tips on maternity clothes, and I peppered her with questions about how she finds her balance.
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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I'm just not a fan of the gym. In fact, I hate it. I understand loving the feeling you get after working out all those endorphins. But going there? It's the worst.
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[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
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I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
Colson Whitehead
