Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYAs 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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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