Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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People trash talk me.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
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All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
