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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Stephen Fry

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.
STEPHEN FRY

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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
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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Business Entering Good Journalism Least Many Morem Think No People Sewage Some Would
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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 is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
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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Altar Celebrate Freedom Language Lover Purity Tolerance Truth Workshipper
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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