Colson Whitehead Quotes

I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.

Colson Whitehead

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I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.

Jessica Biel

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I drive a Lincoln Town Car.

Jerry Jones

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I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

Jenova Chen

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I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.

John McEnroe

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I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Matthew Settle

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My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

Michael Cera

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I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

Sirio Maccioni

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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Robert Toombs

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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Robert Trout

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I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.

Ron Carlson

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I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill or in the White House - people all find intriguing.

Judy Smith

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Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Josh Peck

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