John Tiffany Quotes
'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
Quotes to Explore
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
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Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.
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All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
