Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
Quotes to Explore
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
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In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
