Johnny Flynn Quotes
I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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History's a resource.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.
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I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.
