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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I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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The body was born and it will die. But for the soul there is no death. It is like the betel-nut. When the nut is ripe it does not stick to the shell. But when it is green it is difficult to separate it from the shell. After realizing God, one does not identify oneself any more with the body. Then one knows that body and soul are two different things.
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Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.
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Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.
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Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.
