August 2012
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Watchvulnerable-and-incrediblyexposed:
In their own words:
“Stephen Fry reads Oscar Wilde’s short story The Happy Prince in an animated short film for, and to raise awareness of, the National Literacy Trust
B Good Picture Company filmed Stephen Fry reading the full story of The Happy Prince on camera. Now they want to make a short, 20 minute, film featuring beautiful animation to complement...
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“The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them...”
– The Liar
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“Connection is what humans crave. It’s what we are all about. It’s...”
– Stephen Fry, on the advent of the internet
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“There are plenty who are more obviously show-offy than I am, but that is what is...”
– The Fry Chronicles
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Interviewer: In your autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, you openly and honestly talk about your experience as a quite sexually active young man. The reader is confident that you have lived these experiences and feelings, because you don't hold anything back.
Stephen Fry: That's right - I try not to. One journalist, when it came out, talked about it being confessional - and I said "Yes it is in many ways" and he then talked about all the sexual parts and I said "No those are not confessional, to use the word "confessional" about those is to imply that there's something one wants to get off their chest because they feel guilty about it. It's confessional in other things that I felt guilty about - being a liar and a thief and a cheat - I'm confessing to those. As for my sexual growth and activity - they're things I felt guilty about at the time, but I now do not in the least feel guilty about."
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“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join...”
– Moab Is My Washpot
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“That’s a very typical thing about Britain, if you really imitate the...”
– Stephen Fry
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“I loathed committee meetings then and I loathe them now. My whole life has been...”
– The Fry Chronicles
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Question: What keeps you up at night?
Stephen Fry: What keeps me up at night? My minds races with guilt at things I haven’t done, things I’ve got to do. Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night, aren’t they? The things you think-- "Oh my God, I’ve got to do that, I’ve got to do that. Will I have time to do this? I better set my alarm for an hour earlier to do this." And also if I’ve… I don’t know. [...] I still feel that I’m being watched, you know, by my grandfather, or somebody, who is shaking his head at me and going, you know, "You let yourself down, there."
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“When I was between the ages of about seven and twelve I was obsessed with...”
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“The rather wonderful English word tmesis, which, so far as I know, is the only...”
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“It’s unlucky to be superstitious.”
– (x)
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“Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set to its...”
– Moab is my Washpot
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“Certainly Wilde was witty, certainly he is remembered for firing off epigrams...”
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“Come to think of it I don’t know that love has a point, which is what makes it...”
– Moab is my Washpot
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“I always felt a small, secret longing to try, just once, something a little more...”
– Introduction to the script for Wilde
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