When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYI’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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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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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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As 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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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