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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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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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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My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
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Ever since the eighth grade, I can honestly say I cut out carbonated drinks from my diet and started focusing on hydrating my body well. It's a message that needs to get out, especially in the south.
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Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
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Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
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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.
