Victor LaValle Quotes
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
Quotes to Explore
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
