Rhys Ifans Quotes
The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.
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There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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Work goes well if you give your best with the guy beside you.
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I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.
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I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
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This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
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I'm not very complicated.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. I did a lot of research on him too but during the promotions, I focused mainly on Johnny Depp. There's a mysterious charm about him just by the way he looks, talks and moves.
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I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.
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The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.
