Mariella Frostrup Quotes
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
Mariella Frostrup
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
Ian Beattie
I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
Nate Torrence
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
Viggo Mortensen
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Aaron Neville
I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.
Marquis de Lafayette
When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'
John Roberts
Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
Dorothy Dix
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
John R. Allen
Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.
Dennis Miller
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
Mariella Frostrup