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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 in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
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"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
Art
"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."
Future
"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."
Acting
"Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film."
Film
"Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties."
Old
"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."
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"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
Travel
"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."
Love
"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."
Love
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