Victor LaValle Quotes

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1972

Topics

FunGameHellGolfLaughDoing

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

Jeffrey Wright

LiveMyselfManPurposeBlack

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

John Hickenlooper

GovernmentEnvironmentalHealthcare

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

Sigmar Polke

LifeRealityNothingMeanNormal

The hard left labels anyone who challenges it 'divisive.' The leftists live in a world where everyone is free to look different but must think the same. I don't play their game. I threaten them and their narrative. That's why they slap the 'divisive' label and attempt to dismiss me. It's not going to work - not on me.

Tomi Lahren

WorkLiveMeChallengesWorldGame

Honestly, the way I make music, you know - it's like, I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I try my best to make time with music that doesn't have an expiration date.

Juice Wrld

MusicTimeBestYouKnowWant

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

ChangeTeamNameBetterPortraitHe

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

David Selby

CollegeMeTakeGoingSureHappened

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Meloni

RealityEnoughYouTryBendHard

I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Conan Stevens

DoorStoryDownMissedFootGet

Everybody calls me Big Man.

Clarence Clemons

ManMeBigEverybodyCalls

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.

Chrystia Freeland

LeaderSilenceWorldCriticismFirst

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

Brie Larson

TimeMyselfBetterFeelSomeoneYou

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