Stephen Fry Quotes
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
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Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
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Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
