J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
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I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
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What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.
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Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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I'm not in business to make money.
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If Palin lawyer thomas van flein thinks palin has been 'defamed' he is delusional. Birds of a feather....
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Boni duces publico certamine numquam nisi ex occasione aut nimia necessitate confligunt.
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.
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The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
