David Frost
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"Sir David Paradine Frost", was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host.

After graduating from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the UK 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 US television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former President of the United States/United States President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a Frost/Nixon (play)/stage play and Frost/Nixon (film)/film.

Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch of ITV (TV network)/ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of Through the Keyhole. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly programme The Frost Interview.

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Over-exposure to the sun and the associated risks are, of course, of concern.

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

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

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

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

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

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

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

A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich.