Last Tycoon Quotes

#1. services as a tree trimmer.92 In the fall of 1975, while still promoting Cuckoo's Nest, Nicholson played a very small part in his pal Sam Spiegel's production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, based on the life of MGM wonder boy Irving Thalberg, who made Metro the dominant

Edward Douglas

#2. I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

Matt Bomer

#3. Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen!

Avijeet Das

#4. You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.

Nikki Rowe

#6. For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

May Sarton

#7. In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

Thomas Frank

#8. I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Zakk Wylde

#9. Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Ma Jian

#10. The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx

#11. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.

Nicole Green

#12. John jolted awake to find himself staring down a shotgun wielded by his greatest enemy: himself.

David Wong

#13. Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

#14. Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Bruce Lee

#15. No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Michael Franti