Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.
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Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
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I love myself.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
