Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
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I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
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If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
