John Tiffany Quotes
Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.
Quotes to Explore
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
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Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
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I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.
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Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.
