Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
