Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
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We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.
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...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.
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There are certain myths that have persisted throughout the ages, and this one has remained very potent in modern culture. The Arthurian cycle involves numerous kinds of relationships, not only between men but also between men and women. In our rather less structured society nowadays defining these relationships can sometimes be difficult.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
