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.
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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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