Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.
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So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.
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Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
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Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'