Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYIt is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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