Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard -
Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
Edgar Wright -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma -
I want to pursue a career in film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser -
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
Orlando Bloom -
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
Sachin Bansal -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman -
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Barton Gellman -
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
Sadie Frost -
I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
Patricia Clarkson -
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin -
I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
Eden Hazard
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I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
Colin Farrell -
You only live once, so off with them pants. Hell ain't for sure, it's only a chance.
Mojo Nixon -
Lifelong dissent has more than acclimated me cheerfully to defeat. It has made me suspicious of victory. I feel uneasy at the very idea of a Movement. I see every insight degenerating into a dogma, and fresh thoughts freezing into lifeless party line.
I. F. Stone -
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
L'Wren Scott -
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov