I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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