Mariella Frostrup Quotes
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
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Mars does not have an atmosphere and does not have a magnetic field today, so the planet doesn't have the protection from radiation that our atmosphere and magnetic fields provide us on Earth.
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
