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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
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Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.
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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
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You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
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Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.
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Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.
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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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I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
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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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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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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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If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
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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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You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children
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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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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
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Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
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