"Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien."

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John Orloff

#Derivatives Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Gnome Quotes

“Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.”
“When people would ask me what Iâ€™m addicted to, I always said â€˜music.â€™ And while theyâ€™d laugh it off like itâ€™s a clichÃ©, Iâ€™m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. Iâ€™d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said â€˜going out of business,â€™ my heart stopped.”

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“The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.”
“I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.”
“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”
“Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.”

Source : "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.
“Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.”
“If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.”

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