Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.
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According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
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The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
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The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
