Johnny Flynn Quotes
Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
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I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.
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Most people look better with their clothes ON, and those ten people who don't look better than you, so why bother.
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I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
