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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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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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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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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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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With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.
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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
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You know what makes me mad about 'The Bachelorette?' That, you know, that that chick would get a man. Get me a date.
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I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
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My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
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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.
