F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement."
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Basements
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Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement."
Sebastian Bach
Composer
"I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming."
Geddy Lee
Musician
"I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work."
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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement."
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"He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household."
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