Stephen Fry Quotes
If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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People like to see showdowns.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
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Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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I think I'm the most private out of my family.
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
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Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
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My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.
