Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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We care about margins.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
