J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.
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In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece
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Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Solicitation and effort or conation belong properly to animate beings alone. When they are attributed to other things, they must be taken in a metaphorical sense; but a philosopher should abstain from metaphor.
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Mind your P's and Q's.
