Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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 have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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