John Tiffany Quotes
'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.John Tiffany
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
Karolina Kurkova -
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey -
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Park Chan-wook -
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
Carl Perkins -
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
Felicity Jones -
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown -
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
Gail Collins -
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Walter Mosley
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube -
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane -
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
Forest Whitaker -
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
Laura Benanti
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen -
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
Mark Boal -
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
Andre Bazin -
I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
Kevin James -
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett -
'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
John Tiffany