#real

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 not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#convinced #energies #female #gender #i

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#ball #because #bit #camera #contend

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me. ↗

— Demi Moore

#end #find #fundamentally #going #i

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #marriage #missed #old #opportunity

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#back #because #close #decent #did

There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good. ↗

— Scotty Moore

#audio #available #book #book signings #bookstores

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#away #cases #grows #influential #lame

I don't really think of myself as an actor. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#i #myself #really #think