John Tiffany Quotes
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
-
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
-
Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
-
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
-
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
-
I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
-
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
-
I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
-
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
-
I want to be my own person.
-
I was always very focused on how people dressed.
-
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
-
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
-
If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
-
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
-
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
-
I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are.
-
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
-
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
-
One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.
-
The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.
-
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
