Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I won't join another band again.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
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We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
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I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!
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Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
