Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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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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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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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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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
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I mix my lipsticks a lot. Depending on how I decide to do my eyes, I'll decide to do my lips. I've never really loved wearing only red or purple, and sometimes just pink isn't enough.
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I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.
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When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
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People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
