J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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You have to be yourself.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
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Gay men in a very real way created my career.
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My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
