I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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