Victor LaValle Quotes
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.Victor LaValle
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.
Larry Wilcox -
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.
Lance Reddick -
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.
Tadao Ando -
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?'
Yuvraj Singh -
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.
S. J. Rozan -
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Barbara Walters -
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Pat Riley -
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.
T. J. Perkins -
Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
Tamra Davis -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Harold W. Dodds -
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.
Fabrizio Moreira -
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan -
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos -
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?
Karin Slaughter -
It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
Victoria Jackson
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Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams.
Zeenat Aman -
Being in this band the Spice Girls is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.
Emma Bunton Spice Girls -
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.
Gaston Bachelard -
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
AJ McLean -
We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
Dan Coats -
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
Victor LaValle