Colson Whitehead Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
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The secret of success is sincerity.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
Colson Whitehead
