J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.
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I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.
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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
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I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
