Happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYAs 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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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I don’t watch TV. 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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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