Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRYI am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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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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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’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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