Mariella Frostrup Quotes
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.Mariella Frostrup
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
Aaron Patzer
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Joanne Rowling -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn -
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
Oliver Sim The xx -
While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
Aaron Sorkin -
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier -
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
F. Sionil Jose -
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson -
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
Calvin Johnson -
There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
Sam Reed
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
Rand Paul -
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
Kage Baker -
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.
Garrison Keillor -
*Mariam is having a flashback*
Khaled Hosseini -
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
Mariella Frostrup