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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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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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
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I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.
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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.
