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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I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.
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Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.
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I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
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Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.
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I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
