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.
STEPHEN FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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’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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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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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