J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I definitely don't make many friends. It's my choice; I just have a wall. It's not that I have anything against anyone.
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I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.
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I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
