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 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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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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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.
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Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.
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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
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The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
