Stephen Fry Quotes
I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.
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I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
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“Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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If you dont like a Rule... Just Follow it.. Reach on the Top.. and Change the Rule.
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A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.
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Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
