I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYHappiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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 think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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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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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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