Johnny Flynn Quotes
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
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The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.
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There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.
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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
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I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.
