J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Kat Edmonson
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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.
Orson Scott Card
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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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.
H. R. McMaster
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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.
Foxy Brown
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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.'
Damian Woetzel
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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.
Bashar al-Assad
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Malcolm de Chazal
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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.
Ira Glass
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Grace can and does have a history.
Karl Rahner
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze
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It's a sign of the times. You only have to look at the changes to the Australian Schoolboys line-ups over the past four or five years.
Eddie Charles Jones
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The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Kathy Bates
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe & sayde: I defie the Pope and all his lawes: and further added, that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to know more of the Scripture, then he did.
John Foxe
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I try to find a vocalist that I don't have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make me better, and in turn, I can make them better so that we are, as a team, making ourselves better. I like the vocalist to challenge me. I love to challenge a vocalist.
Adrian Younge
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
