Mariella Frostrup Quotes
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.Mariella Frostrup
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Gavin O'Connor -
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters -
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker -
A busybody's work is never done.
A. N. Wilson -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez -
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo HIM -
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino -
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton -
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
Kalpana Chawla -
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
Hans Rosling
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'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.
Jane McGonigal -
I'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.
Alice Ripley -
Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.
Lynda Resnick -
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew Barrymore -
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.
Dalai Lama -
In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
Mariella Frostrup