Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.Phyllida Lloyd
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
Halle Berry -
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix -
The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
Victor Mitchell -
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
Ian Anderson
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
Camila Alves -
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman -
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
Taylor Lautner -
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
J. D. Vance -
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
Inbee Park -
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
Gary Lineker
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono -
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang -
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney -
I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
Larry Hogan -
My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
Laura Linney
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
Linus Torvalds -
I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.
Lewis Thomas -
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe -
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
Laurence Tribe -
The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
Matt LeBlanc -
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.
Phyllida Lloyd