Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
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You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
