F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.
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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.
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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
