Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.
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I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.
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I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
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Progress is impossible without change.
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Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.
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I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
