Mariella Frostrup Quotes
The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
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Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
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Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
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Older students know what they want, which is good.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
