Johnny Flynn Quotes
I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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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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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
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As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.
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The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS.
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The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
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I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.
