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.
Felicia Day -
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.
Vidal Sassoon -
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.
N. Scott Momaday -
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips -
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
Sam Yagan
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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.
Barbara Mertz -
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.
Fiona Apple -
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.
Wendy O. Williams -
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May -
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Rafael Vinoly
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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.
Ze Frank -
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.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders -
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
Eddie Campbell
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I don't care if I ever work in TV again.
Dave Chappelle -
The idea that we all have to be Pinterest-perfect, killing it on all fronts, drinking our probiotics, remembering to have Rishi, and putting all these things in our kids' lunches - there's a lot of pressure to do all of the things. And we can't do all of the things. I can do a few things, and I've got them nailed. I think that's more realistic.
Busy Philipps -
When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.
Mark Hamill -
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.
Kabir Sehgal -
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Vladimir Nabokov