John Tiffany Quotes
If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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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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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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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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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.
