F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Jury - A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
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I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
