It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYOh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
More Stephen Fry Quotes
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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’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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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