Colson Whitehead Quotes

I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,' which is kind of a detective novel, is very different from 'John Henry Days.' I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

Colson Whitehead

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I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

Meagan Tandy

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I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

Trent Franks

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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Tom Cruise

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Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.

Rush Limbaugh

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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Martin Van Buren

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It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

Lori Singer

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I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really change the way you move and act physically.

Luke Macfarlane

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There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

Judd Apatow

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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Jason Bateman

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I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

Joseph Mawle

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I am not a man who wants revenge.

Claudio Ranieri

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Oh, I don't talk about God.

Shepard Smith

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