Mariella Frostrup Quotes
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Life continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.
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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
