Stephen Fry Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
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I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
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I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.
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I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.
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There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
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The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
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It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
