Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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May our minds be granted greater comprehension so that our hearts may be filled with deepened affection.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
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So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
