Pippin Quotes - Page 2

• I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Lied, Said

  Verses (1910) "The False Heart"

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Wine, Soldier, Vineyards

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Horse, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.411, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin thing to do, I don't know what is.

  Billy Boyd

  Holiday, Florida, Firsts

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• A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

  David Copperfield

  Teenager, Years, Grease

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Speak, Masters

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.455, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

  David Copperfield

  Kids, Numbers, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the beginning, I had to trust that these acrobats were great at what they did and that they wouldn't come crashing down on my head. But our company is the best of the best; they can do everything. That's been the most exciting part of the show-incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our Pippin.

  Patina Miller

  Dancing, Singing, Magic

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• My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

  Hugh Panaro

  Dream, Roles, Stories

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O'Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.

  Boy George

  Track, Trying, Broadway

  Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories and the way stories are very subjective. How we tell some things and leave other things out in the way The Princess Bride is or The Wizard of Oz is, which both have a framing device.

  James Ponsoldt

  Princess, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: 'The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!' For one moment more Pippin's thought hovered. "Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!' And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Gay, Eagles

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• Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Two, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Garden, Roots, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.589, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mistake, Eye, Hair

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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