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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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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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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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.
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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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If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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What's money without happiness?
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I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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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.
