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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I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.
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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 don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
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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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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.
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I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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We all get stoned out of our gourds.
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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.
