J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
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I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.
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One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.
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Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.
