Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRYTo 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.
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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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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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 think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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