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Stephen Fry
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Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and activist. After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, Fry secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. While at university, he became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie.
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“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
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“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
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“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.”
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“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.”
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“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
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“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
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“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
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“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
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“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
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“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
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“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
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“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
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“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
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“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
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“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
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“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
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“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
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“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
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“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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