F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.

  

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• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

  

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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

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• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

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• I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

  

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• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

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• Some people are just right for you.

  

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• I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

  

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• I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

  

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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

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• Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

  

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• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  

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• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

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• It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.

  

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• I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

  

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• I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine.

  

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• To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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