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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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
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Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
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Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
