J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
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I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
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The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling.
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It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
