Astrid Berges-Frisbey Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
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I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.
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For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.
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The subject I was best at in school was biology.