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.
STEPHEN FRYBut 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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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