Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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 only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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