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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'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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The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
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A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.
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Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
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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.
