F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.
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I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
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I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
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I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.
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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!'
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
