Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
Dan Jenkins -
Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga -
Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac -
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
Victoria Pratt -
I'm easily entertained.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine -
We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
D. B. Weiss -
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
Gary Becker -
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
Mallory Ortberg
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay -
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
F. Gary Gray -
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
Karl Malone -
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
Orison Swett Marden
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
Fabrizio Moreira -
They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
J. D. Salinger -
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.
Charles Krauthammer -
I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
Blake Shelton -
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
Nelson Mandela -
The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson