J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day...
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.
Colson Whitehead -
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
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I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.
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The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
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Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
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I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day...
