John Rhys-Davies Quotes
The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.
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It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.
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I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
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Climate change is a reality.
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I remember, after filming that last scene in 'The Walking Dead,' I had nightmares for weeks about being eaten alive. With 'Blair Witch,' I had nightmares as well. But what's scarier about 'Blair Witch' is thinking about what might have happened instead of death.
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It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.
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I never really saw myself as a standup comedian. I always just thought of myself as someone who used the eight minutes or 10 minutes she was allotted and had a blast.
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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
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Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.