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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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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I'm no different than you.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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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.
