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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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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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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My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
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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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I scare the neighbors, the kids... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
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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.
