J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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My friends are my family.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
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I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.
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The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
