Colson Whitehead Quotes
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.
Colson Whitehead
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
Tea Obreht
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
Jack Davenport
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
Yuji Horii
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
Ramez Naam
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
Nadia Comaneci
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel
It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
Laura Bailey
It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
Kaley Cuoco
For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.
Arizona Muse
When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.
Eiza Gonzalez
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Jared Diamond
Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.
Colson Whitehead
