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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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.
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If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'
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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism.
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
