Colson Whitehead Quotes
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.Colson Whitehead
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
Randeep Hooda -
You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
C. L. R. James -
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
Ina Garten -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
Fidel Castro -
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
Harold Prince -
The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
S. Truett Cathy -
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Walter Isaacson -
There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
Alan Alda -
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Jim Doyle -
That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
Diplo -
We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.
Matthew Heineman -
I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.
Dennis Farina -
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.
Colson Whitehead