J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
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If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.
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I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
