Stephen Fry Quotes
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made.
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
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When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
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I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.
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You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
