"I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies."

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Source : "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

Stephen Daldry

#Couple Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.”
“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.128, Hachette UK
“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”
“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”
“This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.”
“When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.”
“It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.”
“I'm actually very active.”

Source : "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.

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