F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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• Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

  

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• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

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• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

  

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• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

  

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• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

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• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

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• Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

  

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• Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

  

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  

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• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

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• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

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• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

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• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  

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• I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

  

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• I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

  

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• When you think Selena Gomez, you think 'celebrity.' But really, she does so many things for me. She's very caring. Before she goes on stage, she's a goofy girl. She's fun-loving and totally lovable, which I say in the most honest way. She's not even a celebrity to me; she's just a really cool person.

  

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• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

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• It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that.

  

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• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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