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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I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.
Jim Brown
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I love putting people to work of color.
Magic Johnson
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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
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Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.
Zack Snyder
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Strange how tightly one's body could be held, how close to somebody else's heart, and yet one wasn't anywhere near the holder. They locked you up in prisons that way, holding your body tight and thinking they had got you, and all the while your mind—you—was as free as the wind and the sunlight. She couldn't help it, she struggled hard to feel as she had felt when she woke up and saw him sitting near her; but the way he had refused to be friends, the complete absence of any readiness in him to meet her, not half, nor even a quarter, but a little bit of the way, had for the first time made her consciously afraid of him.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
