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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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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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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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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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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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
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There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
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Bitcoin offers one service: securely time-stamped, scripted transactions. Everything else is built on the edge-devices as an application. Bitcoin allows any application to be developed independently, without permission, on the edge of the network.
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When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
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It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
