Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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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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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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