My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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