Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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 watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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