J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

Quotes to Explore
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.
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As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.
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We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!