Johnny Flynn Quotes

I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.'

Johnny Flynn

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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves.

Steven Berkoff

AmericanTalkingYouRobotsBecome

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

GoodTimeSongTalkingYouStop

To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.

Jared Polis

TimeFocusYourselfYouLoseGoal

I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

BestBadEitherGolfer

I want a really diverse range of different people under my belt. That's what I'm hoping to do with my career.

Dominic Sherwood

PeopleCareerWantDifferent People

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

Johnny Damon

GreatTimeMyselfFreeYearBoston

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.

Chris Cornell

TeacherSchoolPracticeYouKind

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

Chris Abani

IdeasWritingBelieveBetterNeed

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

Boy George

ChangeThinkAlwaysDaisyChain

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

Asghar Farhadi

FeelImportantTalkComplexUs

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.

Alison Krauss

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