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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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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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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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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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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You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.
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There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
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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.
