Johnny Flynn Quotes

I'm a huge David Hockney fan.

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Man
  • Understanding
  • Salary

• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Goal
  • Leadership
  • Common

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Growth

• Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Great
  • Music
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Believe
  • True
  • Word

• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Star
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Success
  • Musicians

• 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.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Free
  • Community
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Justice

• I like to support local record stores.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Support
  • Like
  • Record

• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Eye
  • Less
  • Meets

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Think
  • Success
  • Nice

• The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Back
  • Prime
  • Geology

• I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • School
  • High
  • Teenager

• Just displaying your resume online, which LinkedIn lets you do, isn't enough.

  

  Caroline Ghosn

• My goal is always to help other women with programs that help them live better lives, especially is areas where health care is missing. Both of my parents are from Ghana, where there is a need for health care in the smaller villages.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Live
  • Women
  • Help

• When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

  

  Neem Karoli Baba
  • Life
  • Sick
  • Cremation

• I'm a huge David Hockney fan.

  

  Johnny Flynn