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" I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish. "
Sam Taylor-Wood
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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. "
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" Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto. "
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" I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer. "
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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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" My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding. "
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" Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion. "
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" Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it. "
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" I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people. "
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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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" 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 felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! "
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" When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it. "
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Over
Find
" 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. "
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Work
" 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. "
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Me
Work
" Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops. "
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New
You
Want
" My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. "
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Childhood
Like
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" I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be. "
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Future
Live
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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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" Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective. "
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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. "
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Me
People
Think
" I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate. "
Sam Taylor-Wood
Parks
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Hate
" I can be very self-destructive, but quietly. "
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I Can
Quietly
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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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Best
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" I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself. "
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