There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
STEPHEN FRYIt 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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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 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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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 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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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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