John Rhys-Davies Quotes

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• Id love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to…
• 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…
• Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get…
• Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win -…
• Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and…
• I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.
• I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold…
• I love a good safari.
• Films are fun, but life is much richer.
• When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.
• As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.
• My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
• Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.
• I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a…
• Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.
• When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate…
• Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
• Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
• I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
• 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…

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