Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
