I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRYI don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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