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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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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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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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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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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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
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There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.
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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.
