Stephen Fry Quotes
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.
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There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.
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Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
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It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.
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Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
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When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.
