Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
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I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
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I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
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There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.
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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
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When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
