Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
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I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.
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I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
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I always had an interest in telling stories.
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I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.
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To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
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Shall I, like an hermit, dwellOn a rock or in a cell?
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If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.
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Optimism is cowardice.
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I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.
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I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum.
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I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.
