My father was all brain and little heart.
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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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