J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
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I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
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To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.
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Black Veil Brides will stand strong for you we will take on the world's hatred so that you don't have to listen to your music way to loud and be as crazy and as "different" as you want to be and always remember you're not alone.
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My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts.
