J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
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Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
