J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller -
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal -
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
Abraham Verghese -
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
Daniel Boulud -
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
Dan Marino
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser -
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale -
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth -
I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
Damon Galgut
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid -
My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
Waka Flocka Flame -
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
Malcolm Gladwell -
This is one of my first years where I'm on track and on target.
Sasha Cohen -
We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
Xavier Dolan -
This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.
Sandra Cisneros -
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
Speak politely to an enraged dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien