Johnny Flynn Quotes
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
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At another level, market crashes constitute beautiful examples of events that we would all like to forecast. The arrow of time is inexorably projecting us toward the undetermined future. Predicting the future captures the imagination of all and is perhaps the greatest challenge.
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If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
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We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
