Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be dangerous.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
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I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
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Are we no greater than the noise we makeAlong one blind atomic pilgrimageWhereon by crass chance billeted we goBecause our brains and bones and cartilageWill have it so?
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Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
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I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.
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I've always been a very active person.
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My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.
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When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.
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My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
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It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
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The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.
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In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.
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The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.
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Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be dangerous.
