Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
