Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Vladimir Nabokov

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• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
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  • Film

• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Back
  • Coming

• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • School
  • High
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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
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• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
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  • Thought

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
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  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
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  • Picture
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• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
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  • You

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
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  • Drink

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
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• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
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• I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Video
  • Prefer

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Enough
  • Moment

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
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  • Style

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Imagination
  • Debt

• I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Family
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  • Drama

• I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

  

  Rami Malek
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  • See
  • Influence

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
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  • Drunk
  • Director

• Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dream

• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
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  • Cops

• Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Opinion
  • Values
  • Boys

• Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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