Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.
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We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Heck, he would happily have enough kids with Molly to make their own soccer team.
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Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
