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Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: english
Birth: March 4, 1967

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Work Me Artist I Can Joke Middle

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

John C. Calhoun

I Am Compromise Resolution Say Mean

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

Pain Grow Bad Find Want Mature

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Good Poetry Will Something Fact

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Independence Better American Nothing

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Success Think Year Urgency Single

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

Someone Vote Who Wasting Believes

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

People Know Street Like DJs

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

Great Tradition Through Seen Delhi

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

Confidence People College Cool Game

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Mind Devil Garbage Just Your Use

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

Brent Scowcroft

Smart Decisions Look Sometimes Out

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Life Live Tomorrow Die You Forever

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