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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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