If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
STEPHEN FRYMy parents were marvelously educated people.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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’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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