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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Enemy
  • Gay

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Music
  • Words
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Without
  • Newspaper
  • Cut

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Job
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Same
  • Behavior
  • Frontier

• 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?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • Like
  • Beauty

• The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Sky
  • More
  • Falling

• 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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Art
  • Goal
  • Foundation

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Stock

• You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dream
  • Hands
  • Feet

• Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

  

  Nigel Kneale
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Together

• After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Growing
  • Friend
  • Wall

• For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Lost
  • Cry
  • White

• 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.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald