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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.

Stephen Fry

Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste
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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Down Fall Go Like Love Person Sit That Violently Wish Write
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word
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
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
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
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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Convince Difficult Fact Gay Known Make Relationship Screen Think Very Well Woman

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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