John Tiffany Quotes
Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
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I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
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Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.
