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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.

Stephen Fry

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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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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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