July 2012
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“Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep...”
– The Liar
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Stephen Fry: If you were going to take up smoking, but you wanted to increase your life expectancy by eight years, how would you do that?
Alan Davies: Take up smoking eight years later than you were going to.
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Question: You have a great command of language, but which are your least favourite words and why?
Stephen Fry: 'Hopefully' and 'disinterested' are nearly always used wrongly and, although it's silly to be pedantic, it annoys me. But the worst is 'energy' when used in a meaningless, new-age sort of way, as in 'positive energy' and all that arse-wallop.
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Interviewer: What question do you most often ask yourself?
Stephen Fry: Why can't you damned well concentrate?
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Question: If you were to appear in Star Wars would you like to be on the dark side of the force, the goody-goody Luke Skywalker side or would a whole new side have to be invented?
Stephen Fry: Definitely the dark side. Better lines, better costumes, better music and better opportunities to show off. Just what an actor likes best really.
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“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is...”
– The Observer, Sunday 9 July 2006
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“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we...”
– The Fry Chronicles
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Stephen Fry: The reference in the Bible to the fiery lake, or whatever, is from "Revelations" where it does say those who practice the magic arts will be cast into burning sulphur.
Phill Jupitus: How about balloon animals?
Stephen Fry: Ooh, the punishment for people who do balloon animals is not specified in "Revelations".
Phill Jupitus:
Squeak eek squeawk eik Giraffe.
Sean Lock:
I think it's loneliness, the punishment for them. Long nights, sitting alone...
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Stephen: But paper doesn't really beat stone, does it?
Jo: That's an engineering question I'm not really prepared to answer.
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Question: What are your extravagances?
Stephen Fry: Apple Macintoshes and the endless stream of peripherals that adhere thereunto; wine; socks; DVDs, first-class air travel. Nothing worthy.
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Question: What makes you happy?
Stephen Fry: I daren't say. I'm not superstitious, but I do dread tempting providence. There are things I couldn't live without: Apple Macintoshes for example (no, I am not paid by Apple and have never received so much as a free floppy from them, I just plain adore the kitteny darlings). Mostly, happiness comes round a dinner table with friends. Eating, drinking, playing poker, being silly. The usual nonsense. When I'm old, emphysemic, arthritic and incontinent I am not sure I know what I will most look back on and identify as happiness. That, I must suppose, means one really ought to get on with the merry-go-round ride, rather than stop and disassemble the mechanics. It'll stop all too soon.
