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I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Cancer
Lost
Years
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Decision
People
Thinking
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Children
Past
Perspective
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Defining Moments
Distance
Thinking
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Decision
Made
People
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Baby
Mother
Sorry
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Jobs
Accomplish
Cancer
Missions
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Another Life
Country
Karaoke
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I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Children
Thinking
Years
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Birth
Creative
Giving
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Cry
Mother
Saws
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Mcqueen
Pushing Boundaries
Rough
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Art
Possibility
Way
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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.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Opinion
People
Should
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Cancer
Unfair
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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.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Love Life
Sometimes
Thinking
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Body
Moments
Want
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I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Opportunity
Hands
Two
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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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-Wood / Filmmaker
Artist
Psychosis
Two
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Challenges
Childhood
Determined
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Kids
House
Remember
Want
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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Pet
Hate
Heart
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
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Age
Actors
People
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I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Black And White
People
Thinking
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Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, "Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done".
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Done
Sometimes
Thinking
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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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Love
Heart
Thinking
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Art
New York
Morning
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
College
House
Real
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
Sam Taylor-Wood / Filmmaker
Emotion
Excited
My Favorite
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