Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYI’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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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 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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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