Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Taylor Dye -
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.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Jaclyn Smith -
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.
J. M. Roberts -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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I don't have many friends.
Larry David -
I'm a really bad liar.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields -
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
Iris Apfel
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck -
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman -
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt -
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
Earl Weaver -
Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
Vladimir Nabokov