J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
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Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
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Science has adapted itself entirely to the wealthy classes and accordingly has set itself to heal those who can afford everything, and it prescribes the same methods for those who have nothing to spare.
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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'As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.'
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.
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Above all shadows rides the sun.
