Stephen Fry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? There are not many husbands and wives, who can bear the charges of plaguing one another in a handsome way.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.
