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.
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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.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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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.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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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.
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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.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
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One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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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.
