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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Age Bladder Em Me Need Remind That
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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Boat Far Have Many Push Should Take Term Thing Too
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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Business Entering Good Journalism Least Many Morem Think No People Sewage Some Would
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Common Country Much Only People Person Realise Room Take
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Another Can Gender Homophobe Love Not Only Really Same Stand
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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Back Cheerfulness Extra Height Inch More Reason Yourself
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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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Code Country Dimechan Ethnical Life Live No Offer Particular People Person Standard
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
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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Bipolar Condition Disorder Go Mider Now One Severe Spectrum
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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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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Acor Always Change Idea Look Love No Someone Think

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