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I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.


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STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
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