Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.Vladimir Nabokov
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro -
I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I don't even have my own computer.
Daley Thompson -
I never thought I'd be an actor.
Zach LaVine -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
Zooey Deschanel -
I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
Hannah Kearney -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
Beatrice Wood -
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones -
I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
Taylour Paige
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Wendell Willkie -
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda -
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
Raf Simons -
Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
Barry Jenkins -
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis -
I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
Imani Hakim
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The bias of each medium of communication is far more distorting than the deliberate lie.
Marshall McLuhan -
I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
Sam Hunt -
I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.
Elena Roger -
The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
Maelle Gavet -
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
Martin Landau -
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
Vladimir Nabokov