I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYChristmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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