Stephen Fry Quotes
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
