J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I love basketball.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
