Stephen Fry Quotes
The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.
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Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.
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I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
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I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
