Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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We must calm the mind of the common man, and tell him to abstain from the words and even the passions which lead to insurrection.
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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
