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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'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'
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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 think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.
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Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
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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.
