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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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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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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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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All earth’s full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
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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.
