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 came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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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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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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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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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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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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Je est un autre.
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I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
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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.
