Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
