That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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