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.
STEPHEN FRYMy father was all brain and little heart.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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