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"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
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"My wish is to create a huge library of books."
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"My life is build around books."
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"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
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"My life transformed by making myself a reader."
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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"My books, my paradise!"
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"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
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"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
Clothes
"I'd love to try my hand at something else."
Love
"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
Want
"I do think I'm a character actor."
Character
"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."
Humor
"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
People
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
Mother
"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
People
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
Struggle
"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
Age
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