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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.
John Rhys-Davies
You
Science
Back
Terms
Sure
Answer
Exist
Question
Questions
Get
Anything
Ask
Should
Even
Fundamental
Why
Fundamental Questions
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.
John Rhys-Davies
Faith
Alone
Will
Understanding
Universe
Our
Must
Give
Rational
Rationality
Understand
Transcend
Us
Thing
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
John Rhys-Davies
Democracy
People
Become
Threatens
Parliament
Disillusioned
No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
John Rhys-Davies
People
Responsibility
Other
Proof
Parliament
No-One
Allowed
He
Taken
Without
Should
Stand
Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.
John Rhys-Davies
Nature
Game
Change
Men
Top
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Jackson
Going
Peter
Peter Jackson
Film-Making
I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
John Rhys-Davies
Respect
Islam
Live
Society
Muslim
Would
Lot
Organised
Aspects
Choose
If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.
John Rhys-Davies
Good
Fashion
You
Say
Follow
Pick
Gotta
Yes
I'm a little smarter than most.
John Rhys-Davies
Smarter
Most
Than
Little
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.
John Rhys-Davies
Hope
Best
You
Bad
Silk
Cast
Purse
Most
Sow
Script
Turn
Even
Ear
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.
John Rhys-Davies
Family
Relationship
You
Focus
Allowed
Taking
Sure
Because
Egotism
Just
Artists
Should
Actor
Away
Actually
Need
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
Jon Ronson
Constant
Klan
Had
Doing
Being
Exposed
Jew
Nightmares
No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.
Jon Ronson
Home
People
Heroes
Back
Kind
Understand
Camp
Exists
America
Going
Realize
Really
Moment
Why
Here
Britain
Need
I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
Jon Ronson
You
Type
Fearless
Call
Person
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Jon Ronson
Time
Paranoia
Paranoid
Some
About
Shadowy
Never
Forces
Been
Being
Ends
Now
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
Jon Ronson
You
Somebody
Think
Too
Ways
Carpet
About
Something
Facts
Instance
Journalism
Feel
Academia
Also
Sort
Course
Courtroom
Lot
Get
Going
Quite
Quite A Lot
Different
Happens
Sweep
Your
Thesis
Set
Suit
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
Jon Ronson
Free
Lose
Our
Distinguishing
Phrase
Pretty
Devalued
Empathy
Between
Term
Pass
Becoming
Making
Misuse
Privilege
Anybody
Apart
Transgression
Capacity
Us
Much
Choose
Serious
Tear
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
Jon Ronson
Life
Me
Bad Things
Personal Life
Sense
Nothing
Way
Bad
Neurotic
Adventures
Make
Accumulate
Person
Trying
Personal
Happened
Little
Regular
Uniquely
Things
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
Jon Ronson
Time
Inside
Compound
Klan
Had
Recurring
Well
Doing
Being
Story
Exposed
Basically
Jew
Nightmare
Nightmares
Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
Jon Ronson
People
Matter
Mind
Other
Philosophy
Followers
David
Take
Him
How
Yeah
His
End
Going
Maybe
Want
In The End
Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.
Jon Ronson
Time
Best
Day
Me
You
People
Try
Other
Those
About
Write
Between
Am
Overnight
Noon
Discover
Times
Than
Anything
Then
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.
Jon Ronson
You
Sometimes
Tyranny
Labeling
Bipolar
Other
Once
Only
Leads
Like
Occasions
Labeled
Childhood
Disorder
Useful
Treated
Success is always less funny than failure.
Jon Ronson
Success
Funny
Failure
Always
Than
Success Is
Less
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
Jon Ronson
Try
Possible
Write
True
Like
Obviously
Always
Very
Stories
Hardest
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
Jon Ronson
Great
You
People
Writing
Great Things
Encouragement
Thinking
Took
Back
See
Some
Case
Only
Point
Write
Like
Wrote
Terrible
Continuing
Submissions
Offer
Any
Anyway
Sent
Capable
Your
Who
Film
Things
Reject
There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.
Jon Ronson
Thoughts
Remember
Space
Feeling
Back
Say
Rules
Kind
Having
No Rules
Could
Onto
Put
Like
Make
Him
Sort
Disconcerting
His
Person
Shoot
Fiction
Anything
Really
Found
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!
Jon Ronson
Beautiful
Example
Way
Admire
He
Stuff
For Example
Make
Ordinary
Really
Nick
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