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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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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I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
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I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.
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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.
