F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.'
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
