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.
STEPHEN FRYMany people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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