J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being - let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.
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Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
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They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
