F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
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The best scene is the last great scene I did.
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
