How could I resent being labeled a has-been when I am placed in the same division as a junior miss of 15? Junior Miss is the title of the picture I am shortly to produce. Many of my friends complimented me and there were some who even said I looked like Shirley Temple's sister. Now tell me: after that would I think of suing Life? It never entered my head.
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    Nothing has astonished me more (and I think my publishers) than the welcome given to The Lord of the Rings. But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man "retired" that is both grateful and comforting.
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      I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard! ' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.
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