John Tiffany Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'
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Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.
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My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.
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There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.
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Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?
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Broadway is full of crazy people.
