Rhys Alexander quote: "Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It�s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors."

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on th...
RHYS DARBY

Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it...
RHYS DARBY

I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. '...
RHYS WAKEFIELD

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there...
RHYS WAKEFIELD

My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indian...
RHYS DARBY

Remember the Y2K bug? Ahhh, those were the days... I'll never forget that New Year's Eve. My...
RHYS DARBY

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly rememb...
MATTHEW RHYS

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&...
MATTHEW RHYS

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri...
JEAN RHYS

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Co...
RHYS IFANS

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and...
RHYS IFANS

I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urge...
RHYS DARBY

Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I've experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and ...
RHYS DARBY

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappea...
RHYS IFANS

In the '80s, when I was watching Bond films in the cinemas, Roger Moore was the man. I'll al...
RHYS DARBY

We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplifie...
RHYS DARBY

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It'...
RHYS IFANS

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his ...
MATTHEW RHYS

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting...
MATTHEW RHYS

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be...
JEAN RHYS

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
JEAN RHYS

Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a...
MATTHEW RHYS

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belitt...
RHYS IFANS

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
JEAN RHYS

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's fu...
MATTHEW RHYS

The touring comic is a lonely soul, sometimes dabbling into conversation with a colleague in the gre...
RHYS DARBY

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
RHYS IFANS

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at ...
MATTHEW RHYS

Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too...
RHYS IFANS

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you&...
RHYS IFANS

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before cou...
RHYS IFANS

Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormous...
MATTHEW RHYS

Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable bill...
RHYS IFANS

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with ...
RHYS IFANS

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
JEAN RHYS

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
JEAN RHYS

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
JEAN RHYS

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that w...
MATTHEW RHYS

I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it c...
RHYS DARBY

I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very ...
MATTHEW RHYS

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then im...
RHYS IFANS

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves ...
RHYS IFANS

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable ...
RHYS IFANS

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio...
RHYS IFANS

In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the ...
RHYS IFANS

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical ...
RHYS DARBY

'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy ...
RHYS DARBY

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself...
RHYS IFANS

When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I...
JEAN RHYS

Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.

But I looked at the dress on the floor and it w...
JEAN RHYS

As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant...
JEAN RHYS

These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me...
JEAN RHYS

Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hund...
JEAN RHYS

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
RHYS IFANS

I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We nee...
MATTHEW RHYS

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London...
RHYS IFANS

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
JEAN RHYS

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't com...
MATTHEW RHYS

My favorite crypted is definitely Yeti because it's once removed. It's not as popular as Big...
RHYS DARBY

I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest...
RHYS DARBY

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds...
RHYS IFANS

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
JEAN RHYS

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS

After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skil...
RHYS DARBY

It's not her fault she can't cook."
"You are too nice natured, darling. You won't get anywhere ...
RHYS BOWEN

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk abou...
RHYS BOWEN

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
JEAN RHYS

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of bo...
JEAN RHYS

It affects the team but we'll be able to overcome it. We've had to overcome it before and we'll be a...
RHYS ORPE

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say,...
JEAN RHYS

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes f...
JEAN RHYS

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
JEAN RHYS

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fu...
JEAN RHYS

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
RHYS IFANS

I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying mysel...
JEAN RHYS

Every species has its pub.
RHYS IFANS

A pub can be a magical place.
RHYS IFANS

Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn...
JEAN RHYS

All punk rockers hate Christmas.
RHYS IFANS

I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would fe...
JEAN RHYS

Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac...
JEAN RHYS

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.
RHYS DARBY

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to s...
RHYS IFANS

Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination....
RHYS DARBY

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as...
MATTHEW RHYS

As soon as you have reached this heaven of indifference, you are pulled out of it. From your heaven ...
JEAN RHYS

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.
RHYS IFANS

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
RHYS IFANS

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.
RHYS IFANS

We called the place the Welsh Embassy because there was usually somebody staying in our third bedroo...
RHYS IFANS

The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the...
RHYS DARBY

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw...
MATTHEW RHYS

Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible – the tree of life grew there. But ...
JEAN RHYS

Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It's a technological ta...
RHYS DARBY

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't wa...
RHYS IFANS

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theate...
RHYS IFANS

I remember when I got my first (and only) iPad - excitement filled the air as I opened the box and s...
RHYS DARBY

I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ...
RHYS IFANS

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, i...
MATTHEW RHYS

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry....
RHYS IFANS

I think what I'm gonna do is keep being international and not being grounded to any one particul...
RHYS DARBY

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.
RHYS IFANS

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of m...
RHYS IFANS

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
JEAN RHYS

It is more useful to have an aluminum-based vehicle because it will pay over time. The last part for...
GAREL RHYS

A lot of people in the automotive industry thought he'd sort of exited through the back door when he...
GAREL RHYS

There has been real progress at DaimlerChrysler compared with Ford and GM. They got the job cuts siz...
GAREL RHYS

It's the underperformance of Mercedes that is holding the whole empire back. If you get Mercedes rig...
GAREL RHYS

He certainly had a clear vision for PAG. He wasn't there long enough to see it through, but it's con...
GAREL RHYS

Mercedes has become flabby. Management has woken up to the fact that they have to tackle their cost ...
GAREL RHYS

There is a recognition in Germany that they have to reduce the coziness between managers and the boa...
GAREL RHYS

BMW is a bigger company than Porsche, and Rover is a smaller company than Volkswagen, ... and even t...
GAREL RHYS

The problem with hybrids is that in economic terms, they don't make a lot of sense.
GAREL RHYS

Porsche is the exception that proves the rule: no other car company of its size has had a chance on ...
GAREL RHYS

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
JEAN RHYS

There is a porter at the door and at the reception-desk a grey-haired woman and a sleek young man. JEAN RHYS

I stole a bit of a chopped vegetable and was about to put it in my mouth when Jae’s long fingers c...
RHYS FORD

Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay...
RHYS CHAMBERLAIN

There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain i...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from t...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 198...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way a...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice on...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and try...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to get...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernai...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sur...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest ...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses c...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with him...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

There will be ups and downs, but it is important to remember you're on your own beautiful journey, a...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

When you work with Tom certain things have to be secretive and you accept that.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

It's not reality for me at the moment .
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your lif...
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you co...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to W...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious o...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because ...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever b...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER

On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER

As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER

Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER

Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER

Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER

Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER

As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER

Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER

Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It�s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

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Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It�s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

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