It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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 parents were marvelously educated people.
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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 watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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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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