Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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I love science fiction.
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Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.
