Mariella Frostrup Quotes
For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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The only meal I have is dinner.
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When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.