J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
