Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.
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That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
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There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.
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I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
