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

Stephen Fry

There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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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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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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When 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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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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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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