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 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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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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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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For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.
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He had no living relatives anywhere capable of leaving him a fortune in a will. He owed no money. He had never stolen anything, never cheated anybody. Never fathered any children. He was on as few pieces of paper as it was possible for a human being to get. He was just about invisible.
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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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.
