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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stephen Fry

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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Email Exhaus Know Letter Most Phone Ring Someone Something Time You
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
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
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
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Dare Dropout Fanatic Find Freak Look Loonies Religious Say
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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All Any Experience Passion Reasonable Sense Think We
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 believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Believe Do God Not Would
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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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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Educate Marvelously Parents People Were
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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