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Colson Whitehead Quotes

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Words Appreciate Find Write Hard

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Life Peace People My Life Being Who

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

Music Doing Say Because Get Just

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?

Me Think You Get Like Knows

People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.

People Victory Defeat Talk Like

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Character Feelings Moral Want Answer

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Nature Mountains Go Must Calling

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space Drive Think Interesting Go

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Romesh Gunesekera

Future Live Past Face Understanding

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

People Problems Messed Up She Up

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Live Motto Amazing Chocolate Never

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

Business City Night Week Play Kind

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

School Musicians Now Jazz My Own Up

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