J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
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I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.
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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
