Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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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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