Stephen Fry Quotes
It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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(intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
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You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
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I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
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Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
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The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.
