Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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