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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I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.
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Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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I was small but slow as a college tackle.
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I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
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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.
