J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
