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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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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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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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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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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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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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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I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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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!'
