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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Stephen Fry

There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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 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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Happiness Person Respect
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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Bipolar Condition Disorder Go Mider Now One Severe Spectrum
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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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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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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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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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