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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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

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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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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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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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• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

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• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

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  • Truth
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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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  • Stage
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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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  • Work
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  • Community

• 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.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

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  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

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

  

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  • Time
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• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

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  • Like
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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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  • People
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• I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Life
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• In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses.

  

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  • Life
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• Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

  

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  • Film
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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