Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I don't have many friends.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
