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.Phyllida Lloyd
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
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.
Aaron Paul -
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.
Sam Mendes -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater -
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard -
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!
Sam Heughan -
I don't like to play the victim.
Barry Pepper -
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.
Nat Friedman -
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.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
Carlo Rubbia
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
Federica Mogherini -
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
Edmund White -
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.
Patrick Swayze -
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.
Dan Quinn -
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.
Lee Child -
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
Margaret Thatcher
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I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
Ai Weiwei -
You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.
Amanda Coplin -
I put a charge into a lot of balls. Still can.
Richie Allen -
If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
Phyllida Lloyd