John Tiffany Quotes
I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.
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For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend – to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
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I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.
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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?
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For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.
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I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
