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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Camila Alves
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
Park Geun-hye
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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.
Wayne McGregor
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
Carla Bruni
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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.
D. A. Pennebaker
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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.
Vera Wang
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
Dan Quinn
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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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.
A. R. Rahman
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
J. Paul Getty
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
Ian Axel
