Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.
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We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
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I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
