David Frost
David Frost
Sir David Paradine Frost, OBEwas an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth7 April 1939
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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Financial devolution cannot happen until and unless we achieve this.
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The alarming manufacturing figures, the decline in confidence balances across all sectors, and the fall in all the export balances are the most disturbing features of the Q3 results,
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the only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the United States and the last six prime ministers of the United Kingdom.
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With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (Bank of England's) monetary policy committee to consider an early interest rate cut.
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Waiting too long before taking corrective action could be dangerous and cause long-term damage.
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Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about.
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For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow
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There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.
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Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.
heart law cold
This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.
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What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.