Stephen Fry Quotes

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

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• It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

  

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• The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

  

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• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  

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• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  

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• In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

  

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• I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.

  

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• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

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• I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

  

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• The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

  

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• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  

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• A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.

  

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• Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made.

  

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• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

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• Politics has become entertainment.

  

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• I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

  

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• I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.

  

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• I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

  

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• The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

  

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• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

  

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• Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.

  

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• I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.

  

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• I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Age
  • Miracle
  • Impassioned