Stephen Fry Quotes
You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.
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Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.
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If you ask any of us which movie we were making when one of our kids was born, we'll be able to tell you instantly. It's like our family lives are permanently woven into the movies.
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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
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There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.
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We felt we needed to bolster our team along the offensive line because we had the fewest number of scholarship players returning at those positions. We feel like we met our needs. We recruit the kind of players that we feel can play early in their careers.
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
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You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
