Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
STEPHEN FRYTaste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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