J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
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Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
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Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.
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The first thing I did this morning was call my daughter and told her to leave, go to the next town, ... Go to Dallas. Go further.
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The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.
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A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
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If you want to change the tango, you had better learn boxing, or some other martial art.
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Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
