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.

Sam Taylor-Wood

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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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• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

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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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• What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

  

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• Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

  

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• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

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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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge