F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
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You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.
