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.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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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.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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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.
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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.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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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.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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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.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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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.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
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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.
