Stephen Fry Quotes
As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.
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I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.
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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
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We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.
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I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.
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The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.
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Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.
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The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.
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You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.
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Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.
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What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.
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Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.
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Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don’t ever trade your liberty for another man’s offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.
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I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
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Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.
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As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.
