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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Vladimir Nabokov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977

Topics

Mind Complacency Being Only State

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

Yourself Easy You Actor Places Real

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

World Drive Doing You Place Know

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

Theatre Enough Group Land Lucky

Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

People Political More Younger Gear

For me, it feels empowering to walk down a runway in my underwear!

Walk Me Down Underwear Runway Feels

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Back Early Classic Up Against Going

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Mike Singletary

Great Doing Know Want Why Coach

Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Community Political Goal Become

I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.

Live Short Year Artist First Film

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

Work Business Me Doing Artist Break

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

People Me Song Born Try Some People

You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

Growth Game Planning Name Fake You

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