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.
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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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