Stephen Fry Quotes
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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My plan is to work on a master's in philosophy.
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I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.
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We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.
