It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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 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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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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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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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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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’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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