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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

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