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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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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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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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
