J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
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The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.
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Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.
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We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
