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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Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
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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.
