J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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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.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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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.
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Be generous! Give!
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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.
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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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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.
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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.
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For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
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It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall.
