F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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...She's not buying the lie, but there's nothing else on the shelves.
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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
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Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
