An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRYI 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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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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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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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