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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

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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Chutney Close Country Head Love Make Number Out Parapet Pie Poke Some Year
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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Cliche Like Most True Untrue
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Film For Lot Me Out Take Walk
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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Action Chair Coffee Film Limit Love Machine Most Move Them Watch
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Backward Cloth Do Exist Know Nude Seen Somersault
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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Creation Every Experience Fruit Gardener Insult Leat Once Taste
There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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Code Country Dimechan Ethnical Life Live No Offer Particular People Person Standard
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Common Country Much Only People Person Realise Room Take
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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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Age Bladder Em Me Need Remind That
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Act Direct Film Live One Seven Six Take Time

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