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.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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