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Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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.

Mariella Frostrup

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: November 12, 1962

Topics

Thoughts Solitude Wait Thinking You

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

John Podhoretz

Optimism American Strike Genuine Out

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Stephen Fry

Saying Wonder Sometimes Treason High

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Death Important More Against

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.

Lisa Randall

New York City Me New Museums Kid

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

Jonathan Nolan

Time Game Long Know Hard Right

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Jon Stewart

Time Say Awards They Say Charm Host

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Doug Harvey

You Know Like Umpire Major Were

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

Christopher Lambert

Feel Now Want Actor Got Because

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

Brad Schneider

Health Quality Care Country Right

When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'

Ansel Elgort

I Am Me Makeup Walking Camera Done

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

Serge Schmemann

History Insults Competing Middle

I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.

Tim Hetherington

Time Moving World Important Image