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Rhys Ifans Quotes

More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: July 22, 1967

Topics

Ethics More Something Us Spider-Man

When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.

Live Myself Past City Writing Place

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

Good Enough Kind Never Ball Playing

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

Me Interesting Say Write Whatever

I'm following a real event and real people.

People Real Real People Event

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

Work Culture Feeling Outsider Being

Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross, and by his death, our sins are paid, the debt is paid. We have salvation if we want it. We got tired of saying Payable On Death, so we went to P.O.D.

Death Tired Saying Someone Want

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Children Internet Connection Wall

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Father Business Technology People

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

Rose Wilder Lane

Life Real Always Protection Property

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Better Feel Always Whatever Could

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Michael Kadoorie

Future Today History Tradition Looks

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

Beginning Dedication Result Miracle

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