J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!
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Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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Third time pays for all.
