Johnny Flynn Quotes
My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die
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Makeup, in general, is amazing.
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
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First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.
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My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.
