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
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  • 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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  • Spiritual

• 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
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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
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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

• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  

  Nate Burleson
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  • Seahawks

• You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing school plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Thinking
  • School
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• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Human
  • More

• Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?

  

  John Prine
  • Songs
  • Recognize
  • Pedestal

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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