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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I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
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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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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
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No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.
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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.
