Stephen Fry Quotes
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
