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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Pathetic Created Characters Less

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

Confidence Think Doing You Go Years

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

People Brains Exist Interested Souls

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Character People Random Doing You

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Funny Batteries Some Included Were

More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into them.

Heart Football Tough Play Living

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.

Time Art Cool Financial You Artist

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

Great Money Complaining Way Am

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Book Think Know Anything Slave Text

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Power Blur Always Position Judgement

It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.

Relationship Important Between

You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's just a guy sitting in a tree, waiting on an animal. I don't think it does it justice, and I don't think it captures the enjoyment and the splendor of the incredible outdoors and the feeling of being out there.

Justice Tree Animal Waiting Outdoors

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Marilyn vos Savant

Distraction Out Itself Arises

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