Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
STEPHEN FRYI think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 father was all brain and little heart.
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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 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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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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