J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
