John Tiffany Quotes
One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.
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I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
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One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.
