My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRYI get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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