Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

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• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

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• To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

  

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

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• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

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• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

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• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

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• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

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• I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

  

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• My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

  

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• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

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• Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

  

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• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  

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• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

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• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  

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• I've done it all.

  

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• Messi, even if technically is same or more, he doesn't have more charisma than Maradona had.

  

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• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  

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• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

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• And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

  

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• I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Baby
  • Hands
  • Kissing