F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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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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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
