J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
Dakota Goyo
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
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You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.
Mahesh Babu
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
J. J. Abrams
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I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
Lara Giddings
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Be generous! Give!
W. Clement Stone
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
Aldo Leopold
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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
Laurie Metcalf
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
Jodie Foster
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As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
Colin Mochrie
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'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.
Jeffrey Tambor
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For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
Alain Ducasse
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
Rumi
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I get 'The New Yorker,' and I'm usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, 'Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!' But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense.
Jason Jones
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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
D. A. Carson
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My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
Viswanathan Anand
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God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.
Eric Metaxas
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Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.
J. R. R. Tolkien
