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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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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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
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I've never gone to comedy clubs.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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In 2008, no one else would ever have believed me that we were going to make a car actually drive everywhere, all the time.
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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
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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.
