Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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Never pass up new experiences Scarlett, They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.
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We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
