F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
