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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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 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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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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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I play as I feel.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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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.
