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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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
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I live in America. I love being an American.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
