Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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