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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I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
