F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Imagination rules the world.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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You have to know how to score.
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The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
