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Colson Whitehead Quotes

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Book Kind Different Treatment Each

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

Parenting Personality Wife Pain You

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Never Office Years Got Four Once

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

John Maynard Smith

Think Talking Because Jargon I Think

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Fairy Tale You Say Want Fairy Yes

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

Strength Partner Interesting Wish

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

College Me Trash Kid Park Hitch

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

Mother Children Day Wake Up Think

I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.

Deborah Joy Winans

Acting Hard Arts Got Just State

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

People Shopping Internet You Meet

I know how to win games.

Win Know Games How

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Yourself You Pictures Motion Could

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

Love Girl Place California Restore

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