Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I was a tomboy.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I saw The Rev the other night and he was on like four different things. He was like, Dude, Ive been gone for three days!
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Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
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In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
