I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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