John Tiffany Quotes
I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.
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In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.
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I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.
