Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
Quotes to Explore
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.
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What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
