John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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Marissa is one of the fan favorites of 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' for everyone throughout the years.
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I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.
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I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.
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France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example.
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I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
