Victor LaValle Quotes
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
