Mariella Frostrup Quotes
I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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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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We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
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Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.
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EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
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I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.
