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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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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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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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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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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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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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 -
Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties, one cannot exit the euro without leaving the EU.
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I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.
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Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.
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I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.
