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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Hampstead Village
Stephen John Fry
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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
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I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
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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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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.
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Between funny and witty Falls the shadow
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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
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there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
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Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.
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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
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I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
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My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
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I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.
Stephen Fry
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation depression just is, like the weather.
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That's alright, said Hugo. I've got some wine Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. Very nice, said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle. It's cheap, that's the main thing.
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