F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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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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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
