Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
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Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
