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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
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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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
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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Down Fall Go Like Love Person Sit That Violently Wish Write
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Birth Book Elephant Get Give Go Pregnant Urge Way
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Dare Dropout Fanatic Find Freak Look Loonies Religious Say
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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Chutney Close Country Head Love Make Number Out Parapet Pie Poke Some Year
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Bipolar Condition Disorder Go Mider Now One Severe Spectrum

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