Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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Mariella Frostrup

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 12, 1962

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

Mariella Frostrup

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

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I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

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Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

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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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As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

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In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

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We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

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Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

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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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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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Ageing is one of those battles you're not going to win. I'll try to look as good as I can as long as I can. I don't think I'll do cosmetic surgery because I'm a wimp.

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I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

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Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

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I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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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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Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.

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