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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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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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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I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.
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Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
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One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that develop it and get it out there don't really know what we are going to do with until we have really gotten ahold of it and it has become ubiquitous. And then we wind up doing things that its inventors never dreamed of and those things become the real change drivers. That is actually where the whole technocracy thing falls apart for me, because the people who invented it can't predict what we're going to do with it.
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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.
