Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
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I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
