Stephen Fry Quotes
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem.
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Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.
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The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
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True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
