Victor LaValle Quotes

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearWomenStoryImmigrationBad

God's colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier

GodColorsFast

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

Sloane Crosley

WorkCompetitionNew YorkWorldEnd

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

Tom Hanks

FightPeopleSmallStoryLearnYou

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

Ronda Rousey

MeBelieveNothingMoreDisappear

I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening.

Roz Chast

PlaceKnowTakeWhereLikeCartoons

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenFightWaitingDoorsOpen Doors

Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here sacrificing everything. There are people out here on the road with me with kids and families, and they're out here busting their backs for me.

Cole Swindell

PeopleMeRoadFeelCreditBad

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

ForwardMarchMovementClearlyUp

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

Suzanne Vega

RulesJustNo RulesHurtingFights

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Phaedrus

PatienceResultsBearEveryoneOwn

I've set no world record.

Marion Jones

WorldSetRecordWorld Record

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

Len Goodman

CarDanceControlYouGoSay

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