Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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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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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Back in 2001, my first start-up was mentioned in the 'New York Times' and 'USA Today.' I figured that would drive thousands of visitors to the site and tons of new business. Instead, only a handful of people visited our site, and not much business came of it at all.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
