F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
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Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.
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Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
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People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
