I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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