Victor LaValle Quotes
Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
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Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
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I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls, largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare.
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China and the Asian territory is an incredible opportunity. We spend a lot of time looking at it, looking for the right partners.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.