Mariella Frostrup Quotes
I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
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The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
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Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
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I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
