It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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