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Victor LaValle Quotes

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story You Write Nest Hospital

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Yourself You Back More Height Extra

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

Good People Now Mean Hunger Used

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

Child Me World Enough Early Dream

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

Decision Want Kids Made Conscious

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

Power Lying Jury Well Criminal Oath

My mind can't always be on fighting.

Demetrious Johnson

Mind Fighting Always

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

Goals Time Child Accomplish Now

I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.

Brian Azzarello

Everything Like

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

God Time People Stupid Believe See

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

Pressure I Can Achieve Know Want Up

Working on a film is different from working in an office. You spend 16-hour days together; you share stories and become really close. But, when you finish shooting, you don't see each other again.

Shenaz Treasury

Together You Become Office See Days

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Heart Loved Never Close Truly Loves

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