Mariella Frostrup Quotes
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
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The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
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What I've learned is that what most women really want deep down inside is time to get to know you - and your undivided attention. They want it to be about them for a little while.
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While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.
