Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
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My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
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Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
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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.
