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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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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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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Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.
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There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
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You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.
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So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
