Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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Find what you like, and let it kill you.
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It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.
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I don't want to get political here, but everything I've heard out of Donald Trump is definitely, um, shocking. The fact that he's got women fans is very alarming to me, because some of the stuff that has come out of his mouth is just so awful.
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If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!
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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
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My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.
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Many artists give up after a while.
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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
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The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.
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If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.
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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
