Victor LaValle Quotes
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
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My wife is possessive and I like that
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
