John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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My health is fine.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
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There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
