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 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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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 would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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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.
