There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYYou can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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 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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