Phyllida Lloyd Quotes
If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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I don't like to play the victim.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.
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If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
