Johnny Flynn Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
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A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.
