J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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The wise speak only of what they know.
