Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
Quotes to Explore
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
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People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
