If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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