John Tiffany Quotes

In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

John Tiffany

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Believe
  • Saying
  • Health care

• If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Believe
  • Professional
  • Rules

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Know
  • Find
  • Possibilities

• I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Believe
  • Win
  • First

• String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Universe

• I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Theatre

• I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Stop

• In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Believe
  • Present
  • Theatre