Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRYMany people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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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