John Rhys-Davies Quotes
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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I got a granite chin.
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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper
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Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.
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I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.
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Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.
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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
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The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
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I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
