Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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