J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
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The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
