Stephen Fry Quotes
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.
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The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.
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An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
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Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.
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...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
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Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
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No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.
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I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way.
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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
