J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in my lifespan the Wall coming down, the reunification.
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'I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.'I considered this. 'I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.'
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
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People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.
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Art should be born from the materials.
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Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.
