J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.
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We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'
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I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.
