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.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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’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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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