J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
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I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.
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If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
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The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
