Stephen Fry Quotes
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
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I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
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One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.
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Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
