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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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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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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Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
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Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.
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No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
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Day by day, we let love just walk awayAnd I'll be the first to say, I was glad to see it goAnd day by day, ever since you went awayI'm finding I'm still missing you, and I just got to know...Does that blue moon ever shine on you?I wanna hold you close to me, feel just like it used to be.And baby, if you feel like I do,You can come to me.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
