Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

Vladimir Nabokov

• Monsters
• Brutal
• Despicable

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• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

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• I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

  

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• Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.

  

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• I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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• I used to take life so seriously; I got so stressed.

  

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• I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
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• There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  

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• I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

  

  Jim Lee
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• Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

  

  Amos Lee
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• More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.

  

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• One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

  

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• I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

  

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• I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

  

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• I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

  

  Matthew Rhys
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• I don't kiss on the first date. My friends always make fun of me for that! But I will hold hands.

  

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• A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  

  Leontyne Price
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• he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

  

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• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

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• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

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• Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  

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• He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers ceased to be easy.

  

  Courtney Milan
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• I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Monsters
  • Brutal
  • Despicable