Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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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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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
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KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
