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Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
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[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
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We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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