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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I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.
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I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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I love our traditional marriage. I would never cheat on Hank.
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My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
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For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.
