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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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
