Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
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The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Investigation is never complete.
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By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
