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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

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 FRY

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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.
STEPHEN FRY

Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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.
STEPHEN FRY

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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRY

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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRY

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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
STEPHEN FRY

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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.
STEPHEN FRY

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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRY

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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
STEPHEN FRY

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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY

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