Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
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.
Jack White The White Stripes -
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.
Baruj Benacerraf -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles -
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.
Vincent Cassel -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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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.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
Nadine Velazquez -
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Bashar al-Assad -
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Gary Shteyngart -
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.
Raekwon -
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine
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The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.
Kimbal Musk -
I'm into the whole skincare thing.
Jason Flemyng -
I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
Damon Lindelof -
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
Jochen Zeitz -
I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.
Laurence Fishburne -
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Vladimir Nabokov