Stephen Fry Quotes
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
