Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

Joan Didion

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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

John Legend

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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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Issues become much more real to me when I have stories back home.

Lois Frankel

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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

Jonathan Lethem

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We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

Dee Dee Ramone

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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

Dawn Steel

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If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

Bonnie Bedelia

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I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

William P. Young

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Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.

Peter Milligan

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Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

Sebastian Lelio

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I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.

Scott Adams

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