F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Failure
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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

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• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

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• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

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• I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

  

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• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  

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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
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• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
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• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

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  • Life
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• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  

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  • Goal
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• Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

  

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• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

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  • Life
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• I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

  

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• In particular, for my character, Celeste in Big Little Lies, there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.

  

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• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

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• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

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  • Country
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• People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

  

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  • People
  • Conception
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• I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Failure