J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
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The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.
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Comedy is a camouflage for depression.
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
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This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.
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If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.
