Stephen Fry Quotes
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.
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Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.
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With all our virtues and qualities, we Chinese as a race have never realised and expressed ourselves completely, as the Greek and the Romans did, through the medium of art.
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In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.
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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
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I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
