Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes

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• I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
• I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
• 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…
• I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
• I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.
• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
• I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
• I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
• My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
• One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

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