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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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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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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The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
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I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
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If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
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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.
