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Taste 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.

Stephen Fry

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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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’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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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Taste 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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