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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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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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If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
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Alternative medicine people call themselves holistic and say it's the whole approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
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Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
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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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Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
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But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
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I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.
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Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
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People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
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The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.
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