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To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
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I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.
John Rhys-Davies
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I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
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I love a good safari.
John Rhys-Davies -
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
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When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.
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Western Europeans are not having any babies.
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There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
John Rhys-Davies
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When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
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Unkindness is quite a major sin.
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Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
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People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
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No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
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'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.
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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
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'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.
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How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
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I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
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I can't give a soundbite for love or money.
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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.
John Rhys-Davies