J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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I grew up with Bond.
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Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
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When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.
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The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
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It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
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O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!
