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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

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
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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Extreme Ide A Important Intellectual Sexuality Show Some Wide
Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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Actor Been Direct Grave Have Long One So Twenty Without Writer Year
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Admire Generally Not Thing We
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
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
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
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Another Can Gender Homophobe Love Not Only Really Same Stand
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Film For Lot Me Out Take Walk
My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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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Believe Do God Not Would

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