J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
In such 'fantasy', as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
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I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
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As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.
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When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
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The impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality
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In such 'fantasy', as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.
