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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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
