F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
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I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
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Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
