Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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I don't want to become a diabetic.
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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
