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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.

Stephen Fry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
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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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman
Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
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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Code Country Dimechan Ethnical Life Live No Offer Particular People Person Standard
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste
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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Every Hear Hilariously Odd Philosophy Sometimes Speech Thing Use Word
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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