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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • See
  • Go
  • Easier

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Peace

• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Fact
  • Analysis
  • Superpower

• 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.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Soul
  • Culture

• 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!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Best

• 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.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Long
  • Design
  • Clothes

• To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • School
  • Now

• 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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Oil

• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • May
  • You
  • Social

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Stop

• My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Sweet
  • Goddess
  • Signature

• 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.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Moving

• If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Different
  • Think

• China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Trying
  • America
  • Democracy

• If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Doing
  • Misery
  • Don't Love

• A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying

• They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Leave
  • Over
  • Bear

• Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Time

• To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Truth
  • Game
  • Delights

• Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Irrational

• 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.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd