Nina Berberova Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.
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The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.
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Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
