Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
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It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.
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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
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Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
