F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
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On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
