Mariella Frostrup Quotes
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In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.
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Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority.
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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
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Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
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There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.
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I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
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Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.
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I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!
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First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.
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The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.
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Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.
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As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
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I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.