Mariella Frostrup Quotes
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
Quotes to Explore
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.
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In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
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Well, I've been the super-girlfriend, let you think that nothing bother me. Like when you got out with your friends and people bring me back the stories.
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Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.
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I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.
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We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
