J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.
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The blokes have worked really hard over the last five days and have come together well.
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I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.
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Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
