Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Talent is very hot.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
