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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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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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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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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There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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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.
