Stephen Fry Quotes
It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Bling is good.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I am a normal guy.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
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I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.
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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."
