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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One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.
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Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
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Of course, the male-directed films make more money.
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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.
