Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

My characters are galley slaves.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

Katee Sackhoff
- Men
- Women
- Action
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

Patrick Duffy
- Los Angeles
- Angeles
- Los
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

Rand Paul
- World
- Believe
- Friend
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

Queen Rania of Jordan
- Good
- Now
- Embrace
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

Carice van Houten
- Husband
- Child
- Stubborn
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

Randy Moss
- Heart
- Business
- Nature