Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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I want to look good when people see me.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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Promptly improve your accidents.
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
