Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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