F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The first time I've actually filmed in London, the locations we've all had have been real inner city, grimy urban places which has been great. Filming here, you've got everything on your doorstep, so when you've got time off, you can go into town, so I've really enjoyed it.
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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
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The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
