It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYIt is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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