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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.

Stephen Fry

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRY

Altar Celebrate Freedom Language Lover Purity Tolerance Truth Workshipper
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Common Country Much Only People Person Realise Room Take
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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All Any Experience Passion Reasonable Sense Think We
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’.
STEPHEN FRY

Back Being But Could Country Durect Go Great Hero However I Love People Person Time
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
STEPHEN FRY

Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRY

Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRY

Dare Dropout Fanatic Find Freak Look Loonies Religious Say
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
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 FRY

Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
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.
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Email Exhaus Know Letter Most Phone Ring Someone Something Time You
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRY

Birth Book Elephant Get Give Go Pregnant Urge Way
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Accent Brillance Country Detect Fool May Not Realy Say Should Sometimes There Treason Wonder
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRY

But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRY

Believe Do God Not Would

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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