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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When I was young, I was everywhere.
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Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.
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You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
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It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.
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A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.