F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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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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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
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The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
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I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
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They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America.
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What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
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The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.
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Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.
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I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.
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What you can become depends upon what you can overcome.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
