J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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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.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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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.
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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.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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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.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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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.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
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If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
