Colson Whitehead Quotes
Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.Colson Whitehead
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
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Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Colson Whitehead
