Johnny Flynn Quotes
The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.
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I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
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Fashion says a lot about a person.
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A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
