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 am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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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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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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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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When I get really passionate about something, the audition process is really strenuous and hard on me because I feel so much for the project, and I become so attached to it. It's hard. It's stressful because you want it so badly, and you're crafting this character that you're falling in love with.
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I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.
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I never went shopping. That wasn't my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.
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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.
