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• I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.

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• Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it’s now more commonly called, is that it’s about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one’s a depressive. The point is, one’s a manic-depressive.

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• To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

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• You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.

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• You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

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• When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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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.

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• They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

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• There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.

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• That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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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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• Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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• Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

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• No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.

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• Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

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• 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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• Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.

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Stephen Fry (63)

Birth:	24th August, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Author, Comedian, Director, Journalist, Playwriter, Poet, Screenwriter, Television Presenter

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