Stephen Fry Quotes
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
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It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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I remember as a kid during devotional in church when the “old” people would say they woke up with a song on their heart. I guess “old” people wake up with poems on their hearts too.
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My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.
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I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here Alexandria, up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.
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We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.
