Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Science
  • Education

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Man
  • Thought

• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Love
  • Change
  • Respect

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Old
  • Grow

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Growth
  • Same
  • New York

• A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Great
  • More
  • Mission

• The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • May
  • Difference
  • Presidential

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Death
  • Choice
  • Horror

• If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.

  Colson Whitehead

• In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd