J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
Beau Willimon
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
I. M. Pei
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
Lance Loud
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Irwin Shaw
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
T. J. Miller
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Garry Trudeau
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
Salman Rushdie
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.
Keanu Reeves
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In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.
T. E. Lawrence
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If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
