J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.
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Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.
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'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So I've been very lucky to have been able to grow in that sense, just through moving to FOX.
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Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
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For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
