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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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We cut tax exemptions in 1986, it was the most admired tax reform in U.S. history. Congress and the president worked together then to eliminate scores of loopholes and exemptions and deductions; this made taxes much simpler, and allowed a major cut in tax rates.
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
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In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.
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I'm a huge David Hockney fan.
