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.
STEPHEN FRYPersonally, 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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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 went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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