Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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It 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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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