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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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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Woman is the window through which we see the world.
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With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
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Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
