J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
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There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.
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You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
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For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?
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American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.
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But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.
