John Tiffany Quotes
Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!
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I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.
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Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.
