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My parents were marvelously educated people.
Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.
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A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
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Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
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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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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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The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
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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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Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.
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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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