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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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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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 divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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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.
