Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
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No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
