Victor LaValle Quotes
I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
Carice van Houten
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
Inge de Bruijn
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
Yitzhak Rabin
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
Olesya Rulin
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
Aaron Sorkin
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Halle Berry
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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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
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
Ziggy Marley
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Samuel Morse
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I won't ski in the backcountry the day after a big storm anymore. The mountains are so humbling. As soon as you think you're on top or crushing it, that's when you need to be really careful.
Jimmy Chin
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
Ernest Hemingway
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
Oscar Wilde
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
Victor LaValle