John Tiffany Quotes
I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.John Tiffany
Quotes to Explore
-
My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
Canelo Alvarez -
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
Kaley Cuoco
-
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
Frances Beinecke -
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
Ed Stoppard -
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
Kate Bush -
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
Haile Gebrselassie
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Gary Wolf -
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt -
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
Nathaniel Smith -
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
Kamala Harris -
I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
Karl Malone
-
When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
Hank Azaria -
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
Shania Twain -
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
Gary Wolf -
I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit.
Jerry Saltz -
Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
Donald Miller -
I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.
John Tiffany