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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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
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I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
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There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
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I'm a huge David Hockney fan.
