Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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