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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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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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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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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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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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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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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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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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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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
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The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.
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When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
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So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
