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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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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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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I am in love with every member of One Direction.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.