Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].
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There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
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The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
