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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.

Stephen Fry

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
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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I don’t watch TV. 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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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