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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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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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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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
