J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.
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This Australian side is an amazing side. England are a very good team, but Australia are better. The records of the individuals alone reveal that. But we gained a lot of respect for England.
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims...
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The party is on my birthday, June 21 - my 21st on the 21st, which is Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year and the longest night for a lot of people who are helping to organize it. My father very kindly suggested having a party, although he's probably regretting it now.
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It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.
