Johnny Flynn Quotes
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
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Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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I like to support local record stores.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
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But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
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Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own.
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.
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I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
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I'm a huge David Hockney fan.
