Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.

  

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

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• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

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• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

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• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

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• I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

  

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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

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• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

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• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

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• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

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• I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.

  

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• I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

  

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• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

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• I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

  

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• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

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• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

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• Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

  

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• 'Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.'

  

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• God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

  

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• I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

  

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• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

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• Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trying
  • Imagine
  • Doe