John Rhys-Davies Quotes
If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
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When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
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If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.
