I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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