Stephen Fry Quotes
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
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In one of Chekhov’s short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. “If he were smaller,” says the child reasonably, “you couldn’t see his eyes.” ENTRY:
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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Half my life is an act of revision.
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.
