Stephen Fry Quotes
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
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Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
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You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
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I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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And the White House, totally off the script.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.
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WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.
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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
