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My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
Mariella Frostrup -
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
Mariella Frostrup
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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.
Mariella Frostrup -
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.
Mariella Frostrup -
Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
Mariella Frostrup -
It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.
Mariella Frostrup -
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.
Mariella Frostrup -
When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.
Mariella Frostrup