Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
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It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.
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On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.
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I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
