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The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can’t pay my bills, can still set me free.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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Tiffanie DeBartolo
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 27
Composer
Film Director
Novelist
Record Producer
Screenwriter
Youngstown
Ohio
Free
Faith
Idea
Bills
Stills
Decisions
Truth
Pay
Still
Talent
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He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.
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Inside every believe, there's a lie.
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I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my heart, my soul, my eyes and ears and even my toes were locking their doors. They wouldn't let me in. For safety reasons. I had no choice but to throw the feelings away.
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I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.
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Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.
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That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.
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Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.
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I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated and taut, his hands and feet dripped with blood, and nothing but a gauzy loincloth hid what looked like a nice package underneath. “Sexy,” I said. “He looks like a rock star.
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I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.
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I like to say I don’t believe in mystics . I don’t believe in fate. I don’t believe in destiny or kismet. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.
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We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.
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And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
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Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.
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For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.
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I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.
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This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.
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I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.
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