Victor LaValle Quotes
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Let us have peace.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
