Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Judiciary is where my passion is.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.
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The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.
