Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
