Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Singer
  • Heritage
  • Wales

• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Parents
  • My Life

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Write
  • Crying
  • Letter

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• I'm evangelical.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Evangelical

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Best

• I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Time
  • Same
  • Hat

• You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Die

• Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Respect
  • Deep

• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Industry
  • Going

• My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Perfect
  • Reading
  • Morning

• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Always
  • Found
  • Fact

• A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • Simple
  • Popular

• I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Free