Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.
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If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.
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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
