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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.

Stephen Fry

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY

Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
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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Accent Brillance Country Detect Fool May Not Realy Say Should Sometimes There Treason Wonder
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Believe Do God Not Would
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Accurate Detail Future never Paraphernalia Project Spirit Think View
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
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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Code Country Dimechan Ethnical Life Live No Offer Particular People Person Standard
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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All Any Experience Passion Reasonable Sense Think We
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Age Bladder Em Me Need Remind That
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Because Country Down Face Let Offer Part People Person Turn
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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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Backward Cloth Do Exist Know Nude Seen Somersault
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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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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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Become Corner Country Don Quite Something Somewhere Stay Through Tweed Went Would
When 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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Belief Do Full God Must Not Them Were

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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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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