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.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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