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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.

Stephen Fry

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.
STEPHEN FRY

Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
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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Adult Apparently Be Constantly Daily Emotion Group Hu Man Mean Oppose Reconcile Tension To
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
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
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Birth Book Elephant Get Give Go Pregnant Urge Way
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
You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Down Fall Go Like Love Person Sit That Violently Wish Write
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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Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
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
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Belief Do Full God Must Not Them Were

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