J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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It gets late early out there.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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…it is no longer useful to…keep defining and elaborating our understandings of the exact nature of racism, sexism, class and sexual orientation as if they ever operated in isolation.
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
