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.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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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.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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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.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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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.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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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.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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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.
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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.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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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.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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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.
