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" You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things. "

Phyllida Lloyd

Gift

Confidence

Woman

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Men

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Mother

Good

" In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all. "

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Phyllida Lloyd

Much

Comfortable

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" In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me. "

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Thing

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