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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Stephen Fry

I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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Dare Dropout Fanatic Find Freak Look Loonies Religious Say
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 television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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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 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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Film For Lot Me Out Take Walk
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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word

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