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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stephen Fry

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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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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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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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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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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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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