Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I've never been on a date.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
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For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
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If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
