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 FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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