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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 I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein... R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp... R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me. R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou... R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives. R. SHANNON