F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Life
• Night
• Friend
• Morning
• Sleep
• Effort

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• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

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• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

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• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

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• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

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• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

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• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

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• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

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• 'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

  

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• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

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• The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.

  

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• Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Night
  • Friend