John Tiffany Quotes
I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.
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You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
