Victor LaValle Quotes
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
Quotes to Explore
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
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Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
