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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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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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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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
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The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.
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In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.
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We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.
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There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
