Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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Mariella Frostrup

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 12, 1962

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

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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.

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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.

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If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

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It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

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In person, George Clooney lives up to all your expectations.

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I'm a control freak. And more so now that I have children.

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I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

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If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

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Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

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Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

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I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

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I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

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Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

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The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

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In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.

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Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

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I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.

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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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Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

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