Stephen Fry Quotes

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Long
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• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Really
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• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
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• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
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  • Dad

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Democracy
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • You
  • Like
  • Act

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Mountain

• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
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• I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.

  

  Maluma
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• I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Age
  • Proud

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Music
  • Pops
  • Stooges

• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  

  Chase Twichell
  • Theory
  • Depressed
  • Get Out

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Real