F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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"Begin with where you are." Everyone is looking to get ahead, but you get ahead by doing well at the things that are immediately in front of you.Start with the people around you, learn from them, and invest in them.
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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
