Johnny Flynn Quotes

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Lord

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • House
  • Grandfather

• I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Fans
  • Emotions
  • Appreciation

• Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Good
  • Women
  • Guy

• Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Different
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Mistakes
  • System
  • Only

• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Working
  • Films

• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • Me
  • Thing

• We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Service
  • Mankind
  • Serve

• I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • May
  • Think
  • Action

• The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Relationship
  • Effect

• People are our greatest asset .

  

  Dave Ulrich
  • People
  • Greatest

• Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!' which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • She
  • Character
  • Black

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Search

• We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Relax

• I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

  

  Johnny Flynn