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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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
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Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
