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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'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 have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.
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I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
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When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
