John Tiffany Quotes
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.
