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Related I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long... JEFF BEZOS You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you ... DOUGRAY SCOTT I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony. JOAN JETT There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or... CHARISMA CARPENTER I see girls who haven't had a carbohydrate in three years. The second you go back to eating righ... GINNIFER GOODWIN Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and g... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forwar... KEVIN COSTNER When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going ... SYLVESTER STALLONE If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to g... ELIZABETH PERKINS Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're ... LAURA BENANTI There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what... JACK MCBRAYER When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will pro... LOGAN GREEN When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a gro... DREW BARRYMORE I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the... MORGAN FREEMAN If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son... RAFE SPALL You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're... MISTY COPELAND When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see. KYLE CHANDLER If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo... ANTONIN SCALIA Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you'... ANTHONY HAMILTON I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you'r... WHIT STILLMAN As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're g... BRETT FAVRE If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you... J. J. WATT The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one ser... EOIN COLFER We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you... QUAVO If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to w... ADAM SCHLESINGER After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&... AUDREY TAUTOU Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going... TONY DUNGY When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a rol... MARION COTILLARD If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. 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FEDE ALVAREZ If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that beca... J. K. SIMMONS You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove... DAVID BOWIE When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kin... JEFF GREENE You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fig... RUSSELL PETERS Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die,... SONNY BONO When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know... DAN ROSENSWEIG Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games... CHRIS EVANS I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the side... ROZ CHAST I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing '... KEVIN NEALON Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have t... JACK BLACK You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go ... BRYAN CALLEN When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a footba... COLIN KAEPERNICK If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If ... JAMES CORDEN I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, beca... NATASHA LYONNE When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and pea... DORIS LESSING You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the ... ANDREW BENINTENDI If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities ... ALAINA HUFFMAN You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers. NICOLE POLIZZI I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot mor... ZENDAYA I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ... CHRISTINE QUINN The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me... CHLOE SEVIGNY When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that... VERONICA ROTH If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be compet... BOB MCNAIR You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.'... ZACK GREINKE I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't se... CAROL LEIFER If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ... EDDIE OBENG Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Ma... RICHARD DAWKINS At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really pa... JOHN HAGEL III But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks,... JAMIE FOXX And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, t... SHIA LABEOUF I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let ... FRANCINE PASCAL When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ... OCTAVIA BUTLER People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're j... GARY VAYNERCHUK You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you... JOEL OSTEEN When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up i... TAMMY FAYE BAKKER People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I... STANA KATIC When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good momen... MARIA SHARAPOVA I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, yo... SYLVESTER STALLONE If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the ... DANNY DEVITO When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out... NEIL YOUNG I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr... ALDEN EHRENREICH I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a... DAVID BOWIE When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you. KESHA If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always g... IRVINE WELSH All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside... RICKIE FOWLER Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the un... FINN WITTROCK What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year f... AARON PAUL I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... ED HELMS If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplishe... 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TOLKIEN Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as... J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has go... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending! J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays. J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. 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TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t... J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri... J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons thei... JEFFREY KLUGER I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur... JEFFREY JONES Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making the... JEFFREY KLUGER The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destro... JEFFREY SACHS Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and o... JEFFREY ZELDMAN Great people have great values and great ethics. JEFFREY GITOMER The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders... JEFFREY SACHS Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise a... JEFFREY SACHS There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspi... JEFFREY TAMBOR I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win. JEFFREY GITOMER At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to... JEFFREY EUGENIDES I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ... JEFFREY GITOMER What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr... JEFFREY KLUGER The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st... JEFFREY GITOMER I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat... JEFFREY TAMBOR I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ... JEFFREY SKOLL Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p... JEFFREY GITOMER The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i... JEFFREY SACHS I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. JEFFREY DONOVAN What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l... JEFFREY DONOVAN I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ... JEFFREY GITOMER The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. JEFFREY TATE Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ... JEFFREY SATINOVER We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav... JEFFREY SACHS Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a... JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick. JEFFREY FRY My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ... JEFFREY KLUGER The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo... JEFFREY ZELDMAN My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ... JEFFREY GITOMER Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best. JEFFREY FRY You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no... JEFFREY MICHAEL Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. JEFFREY EUGENIDES We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e... JEFFREY EUGENIDES The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ... LORD JEFFREY Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. LORD JEFFREY I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning... JEFFREY ARCHER It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr... JEFFREY BELL Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r... JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus... JEFFREY KOTTLER Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Good design can't fix broken business models. JEFFREY VEEN