It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYPhilosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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