F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.
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The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
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People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be... When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner'… I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
