Stephen Fry Quotes
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
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As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
