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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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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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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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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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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An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
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I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.
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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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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.
