F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
Quotes to Explore
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
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'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.
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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
