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The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#approaches #bias #gender #i #kind

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#her #missed #old #she #sometimes

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#british #clifford #coach #eventually #fantastic

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#comfortable #gradually #grown #i #i am

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behind #came #changed #families #father

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely. ↗

— Mira Nair

#completely #follow #fully #never #stepping

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.' ↗

— Mira Nair

#anything #arkansas #cut #film #film-maker

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#becomes #data #increasingly #information #intuition