Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
STEPHEN FRYYou can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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