John Tiffany Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I'm not graceful.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
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The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.
