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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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.
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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.
