Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYI 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.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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