I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYMy life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I 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.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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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