Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.
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I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have.
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I am very underleveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money.
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A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
