Victor LaValle Quotes

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

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• I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Child

• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Acting
  • Used

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Nerd

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Experience
  • Professional
  • Summer

• When people, some of them very intellectual, claim that evolution is not true, I get a little nervous.

  

  Bill Nye
  • People
  • True

• I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Experience
  • True
  • Know