It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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