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.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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