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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Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
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Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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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.
