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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
Patrick Ness -
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
Matt Bomer -
The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
Cardi B -
How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!
Fatty Arbuckle -
There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.
Alessandro Aleotti -
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