J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

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My father was a lawyer.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I look formidable.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
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Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.
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All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
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He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.