John Tiffany Quotes
You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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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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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov -
I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.
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Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.
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You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.
