Stephen Fry Quotes
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
