But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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