Christopher Fry Quotes
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
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'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
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Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
