J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
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Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
