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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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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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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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
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If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
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My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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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.
