J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be ove.

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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be ove.