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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
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
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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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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Boat Far Have Many Push Should Take Term Thing Too
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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Aspect Children Deeply Drive English Insane Kind Literature Love Person Probably Shakespeare Teach Thing University Want
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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Believe Do God Not Would
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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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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Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
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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Because Collect Country Exist Graphic Intelligent Knew never Novel People Peron Person Personality Rate
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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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