F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
  • Studying

• Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Happens
  • Show
  • Knew

• Being fit involves working on all aspects - your body, what you eat, and how you think. A sculpted body is not of much use if you're not there mentally. And similarly, if you're not eating well, it will affect your physical and mental set-up. After all, a six-pack might look good, but that's pretty much it!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Up
  • Job
  • Book

• Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Business
  • Remember

• We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Night

• I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • True
  • Movie
  • Star

• During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Distance

• A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Pride

• Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald