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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.

Stephen Fry

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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