Matt Lauer Quotes
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.
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On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.
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Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
