Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.
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As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.
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Tea is a huge part of my life.