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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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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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.
