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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People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
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A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
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A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
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Far-right states derive mass support from the perception of their success in dealing with internal or external enemies; economic matters, though certainly important, do not bear directly on state legitimacy as they do in far-left states.
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The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
