Johnny Flynn Quotes
I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
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Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
