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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRY

Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Belief Do Full God Must Not Them Were
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Another Can Gender Homophobe Love Not Only Really Same Stand
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
STEPHEN FRY

Adult Apparently Be Constantly Daily Emotion Group Hu Man Mean Oppose Reconcile Tension To
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Because Country Down Face Let Offer Part People Person Turn
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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Acor Always Change Idea Look Love No Someone Think
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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Believe Do God Not Would
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Between Divide Least Life Mixture Perform Two Write
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Film For Lot Me Out Take Walk
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRY

Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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