I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
STEPHEN FRYThey 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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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 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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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