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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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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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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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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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.
Garry Kasparov -
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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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I definitely don't like to eat a lot before I play. I don't like to play on a full stomach. Sometimes, if I'm feeling hungry before a game, I'll eat one of those protein bars, but that's it.
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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.
