Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.
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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
