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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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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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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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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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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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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I like to just hang out. My friends don't like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times I'm busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.
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I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
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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.
