I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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