Stephen Fry Quotes

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Vision

• We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

  

  Burnie Burns

• I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Know
  • Give
  • Call

• Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

  

  Edward Luck
  • Proud

• 'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Forever

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Lasts

• Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Music
  • Art
  • Respect

• I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Writing

• Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

  

  John Travolta
  • Men
  • Hollywood
  • Return

• I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Oneself