J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
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My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.
