John Tiffany Quotes

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

John Tiffany

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• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Dream
  • Problem

• My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Parents
  • Couple
  • Years

• I adore 'The Chipmunks.'

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Adore

• When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Tell
  • Market
  • Meetings

• Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Country
  • Me
  • Present

• 'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Day after dayThere are girls at the officeAnd men will always be men.Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers;You may not see him again.

  

  Hal David
  • Men
  • May
  • Hair

• Eye without lid, mind without any dream -These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy, Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you And you, bethou him and bethou. It is A sound like any other. It will end.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Earth

• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Chess

• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Interesting

• The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Feelings

• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Despair
  • Maidens
  • Glare

• By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We The Replacements stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Together
  • Sick
  • Record

• One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

  

  John Tiffany