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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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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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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I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
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Mango has always been on my radar of good high street brands, but its quality sets it apart for me.
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I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
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People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
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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."
