Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
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Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
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To my friends pictured within.
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Civilization? I'll stay right here in the Congo!
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A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.
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I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.
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If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.
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Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.
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I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.
