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.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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