J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

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• I don't care about revenues.

  

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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

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• When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

  

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• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

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• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

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• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  

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• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

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• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

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• I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

  

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• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
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• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

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  • Myself
  • Creative
  • West

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

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• I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.

  

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• You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

  

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• You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.

  

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

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• In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

  

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• I know it's inevitable that there will be those who compare 'The Pacific' to 'Band of Brothers.' For years, the Pacific theater of war was not talked about as much as the European theater, yet it was part of the same war.

  

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• I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mother
  • Language
  • I Remember