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- It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's…
- The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded,…
- There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version…
- I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
- How to seperate the humiliation from the loss, that's the catch. You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being…
- You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt…
- It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I…
- I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious…
- I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing.…
- I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An…
- History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History…
- [his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify from The Hippopotamus
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