Stephen Fry Quotes

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Growing

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Long
  • You
  • Movies

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • End
  • Solution
  • Ships

• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Artist
  • White

• When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Me
  • Intelligent
  • Charming

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Important
  • Why
  • City

• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I can record auditions from my office in my home.

  

  Jason Marsden
  • Home

• We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

  

  T. J. Oshie
  • Hate
  • Team
  • Gun

• I regret very much that D.C. officials have failed to honor the agreement they made when they successfully bid for the Expos to move to Washington. Baseball has no choice but to pursue arbitration so the terms of our original agreement can be honored and to begin to explore whatever options are available to us.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Regret
  • Explore
  • Washington

• I've always wanted to break the stereotype of being a model.

  

  Daria Werbowy
  • Model

• I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Black
  • Nice
  • Simple

• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  

  Erich von Däniken
  • Community
  • Embrace
  • Critics

• The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Gay
  • Critics