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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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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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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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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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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We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.
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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.
