Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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The kind of happiness that I’m talking about is the ability to feel comfortable no matter what emotion arises.
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A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it.
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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
