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"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"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
"Having a great intellect is no path to being happy."
Being
"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."
Books
"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."
American
"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."
Experience
"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
Business
"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."
Government
"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."
American
"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
"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."
People
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