Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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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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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.
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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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I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.
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I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
