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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Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.
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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.
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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.
