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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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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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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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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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
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We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin can't all be the first Ash!
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
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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.
