F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
Quotes to Explore
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.
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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
