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David Frost

(1947–2013) Screenwriter United Kingdom

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David Frost was a screenwriter from the United Kingdom, best known for Frost/Nixon.

Quick Facts About David Frost

Born: January 31, 1947
Died: August 31, 2013
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Frost/Nixon
Spouse: Carina Fitzalan-Howard

About David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost was an English television host, journalist, comedian, and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on American television.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

BAFTA Fellowship Steiger Award Knight Bachelor Officer of the Order of the British Empire International Emmy Founders Award honorary doctor of the University of Sussex Lifetime Achievement Emmy

Quotes by David Frost

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface…

Advantage

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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Art

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What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

Ends

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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…

Certain

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Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Concerned

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Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Adults

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For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

Book

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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Life

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British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp…

Activity

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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…

Because

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Now he's miserable and depressed.

Miserable

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Being upbeat is the key to life.

Being

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“dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.”

Inspirational quotes

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Having one child makes you a parent; having two youare referee

Children

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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Home

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When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

Cheesecake

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New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum,…

Boston

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You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably,…

Choose

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“DO what you LOVE what you DO !”

Love

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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…

Aim

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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

About

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A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

Activity

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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Television

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This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal…

Art

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You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of…

Airline

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