F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I am a very selfish person.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.
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If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
