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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Between Divide Least Life Mixture Perform Two Write
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word
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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Altar Celebrate Freedom Language Lover Purity Tolerance Truth Workshipper
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Act Direct Film Live One Seven Six Take Time
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
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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Business Entering Good Journalism Least Many Morem Think No People Sewage Some Would
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
Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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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Become Corner Country Don Quite Something Somewhere Stay Through Tweed Went Would

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