Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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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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