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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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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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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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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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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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.
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[ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
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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.
