Victor LaValle Quotes
I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
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China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
