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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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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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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Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
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We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
