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 FRYThere 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.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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