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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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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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