Stephen Fry Quotes
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
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I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
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I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.
