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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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It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: We need a John Travolta film.
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I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?
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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
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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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