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Johnny Flynn Quotes

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: south african
Birth: March 14, 1983

Topics

Me Feel London Talk First Names

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

Smile Pain Empathy Suffering Someone

We have to sell a gameplan, and you have to be enthusiastic, and you have to have energy come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Energy Friday You Wednesday Thursday

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

Dark My Own Little Own Left Being

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.

Science Government Action Negative

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Travel Comfortable Just Practical

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

Family School Born Egypt London Up

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

Life Moment My Life Personal Write

People used to say, 'Well, how do you fake that?' Two words - we don't. When you got hit with the chair, you got hit with the chair.

Diamond Dallas Page

Words People Fake Chair You Say

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

Best People Comedy Know Who Did

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Creativity Anxiety

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

Life Positive Mind Me My Life Long

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

Work Day Someone Rejection Attention

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