F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
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If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.
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I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
