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Antonia Fraser

"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."

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"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."

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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."

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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."

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"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

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"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

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"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
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"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."
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"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."
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"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
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