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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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