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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.

Stephen Fry

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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
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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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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