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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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