J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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The artificial is always innocent.
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Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him, and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
