Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
