I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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