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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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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People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
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Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
