Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
