Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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 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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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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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