"Hush! Take no notice!" - Gandalf"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes”
“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
“The male quality is the creative gift.”
“This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.”

Source : "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
“You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.”

Source : Song: I Cross My Heart
“I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.”
“There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.”
“The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.”

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