Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Me
- Collection
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Ralph Marston
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

Nancy Werlin
- World
- Book
- Alone
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Remember
- Poetry
- Tired
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

Damien Hirst
- Real
- Best
- Thought
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Myself
- Trust