Mariella Frostrup Quotes
As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.
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I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
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As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
