John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
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The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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Films are fun, but life is much richer.
