Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
D. B. Weiss
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
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I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot
Frances Bean Cobain
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Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.
Joel Parkinson
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
Oscar Wilde
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We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist, terrorist group.
Hillary Clinton
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
Orson Scott Card
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
