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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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.
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Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy pop music. Metallica is there for people who like head-banging metal. And Susan Boyle is there for... well, I don't who the hell is listening to that freak of nature, but that's not the point. In art, there's something for everybody.
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
