There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYI’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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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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 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 act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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