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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.

Stephen Fry

My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
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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Aspect Children Deeply Drive English Insane Kind Literature Love Person Probably Shakespeare Teach Thing University Want
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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Because Collect Country Exist Graphic Intelligent Knew never Novel People Peron Person Personality Rate
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word
It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
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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Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Act Direct Film Live One Seven Six Take Time
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Common Country Much Only People Person Realise Room Take

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