Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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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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No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
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A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.
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Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
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I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
