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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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 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.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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