Johnny Flynn Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.
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I'm more a competitive person.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
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If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.
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I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
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I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.
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I'm not that politically educated.
