J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
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Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
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After Bill Shawn was fired, I was going to the YMHA Young Men's Hebrew Association on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.
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The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.
