Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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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 went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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