Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Profession : Director

Birth : March 4, 1967

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

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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.

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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

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I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

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