Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Quotes to Explore
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
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If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense. I don't know, I don't think of it that way.
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
