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Stephen Fry: “Lost, alone and I wanted to take my life”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Is It Better to Be an Artist Than an Artist?

I've been going back and forward about this point about art because I've realized as probably as I've got older that expression in some artistic form, it's so great for our mind. Rowan Atkinson said to me once, years ago, he's a very wise man and indeed, and thinks a lot, very thoughtful. If you are relaxed, but it only ever works on stage if you are concentrating. A sportsman called that being in the zone and it's immensely important to get that blend. And one of the ways to create it is, I think, not to do art because that's just too frightening, but to do crafts. That can include painting. It could be

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