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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I've never scared anybody in my life.
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The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
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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.
