Colson Whitehead Quotes
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.Colson Whitehead
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
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We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
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I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
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For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
Colson Whitehead
