Colson Whitehead Quotes

Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'

Colson Whitehead

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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

Andrew Davies

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It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you've imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.

Miguel Sapochnik

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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

Dick Cavett

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Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.

Chris Martin

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I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

Ali Fazal

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I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

Peter Mayhew

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I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Peter Mullan

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I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

Sherri Shepherd

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I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

Mark Cuban

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Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

Knute Nelson

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In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

Curtis Jackson

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