J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.
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In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
