John Tiffany Quotes
For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Photography is an accident.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
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I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.
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I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
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I get moody when I'm tired or hungry. My missus says I get moody... but not with other people. But I can get grumpy.
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There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.
