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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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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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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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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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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You change the world by being yourself.
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Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don’t they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren’t necessarily mine. That’s the mistake people make.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
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For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.
