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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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

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

  

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

  

  Adam McKay
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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.

  

  Zack Snyder
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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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  • 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.

  

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

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
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• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • 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
  • Women
  • Same

• 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.

  

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

  

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• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

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• On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.

  

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  • Why
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• The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

  

  Erich Segal
  • People
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  • Equilibrium

• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

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  • Great
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• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

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  • People
  • Up
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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