John Rhys-Davies Quotes
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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Your family can keep you grounded, make you keep things real.
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I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
