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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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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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
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If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.
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If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.
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For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
Colson Whitehead
