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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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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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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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.
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She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.
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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.
