Victor LaValle Quotes

The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Jim Ryun

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I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

Andrew Weil

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Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Robert Lanza

NatureTimeNothingOurMeans

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

Andy Van Slyke

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Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.

Ana Layevska

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The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

Tony Romo

GameYearFirstAlwaysAdjustment

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

Ruth Bradley

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It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Roy Blunt

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Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

Apollonius of Tyana

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As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.

Peter Morgan

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The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

Thomas Bernhard

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