Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.
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Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
