Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRYIt only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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’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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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