F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.
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I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.
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Reason is the slave of passion.
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The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
