J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.

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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
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The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
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We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.
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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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I do not believe you could intellectually comprehend all the different forces playing upon us. Yet what you can do is become very silent, so you are not distracted and then begin to feel how these forces playing upon us are affecting us, and according to how we feel, we can then make intelligent decisions as to how far, how deep, how much, we explore in any pose.
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But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.