Johnny Flynn Quotes
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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It's funny because the action figures are cool, and then I enjoy the magazines because that's me. Obviously, the fans are wonderful - they're so excited - but I'm not Rey, and people tend to not be able to differentiate the two.
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Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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You hire well and just make sure you have enough runway for everyone to grow in the company's success. It creates loyalty and opportunity, really.
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I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.
