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

" 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. "

" But happiness is no respecter of persons. "

" 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'. "

" Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. "

" Generally, we admire the thing we are not. "

" Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. "

" I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. "

" I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. "

" I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. "

" 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. "

" I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. "

" I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. "

" 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. "

" I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like. "

" It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. "

" 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. "

" Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. "

" 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. "

" Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. "

" Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. "

" 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. "

" That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. "

" The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. "

" 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. "

" 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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