Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
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I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.
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It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.
